Integration
Table Of Contents
- View Integration
- Contents
- Introduction
- Integrating with the Event Database
- Using View PowerCLI
- Introduction to View PowerCLI
- View PowerCLI Cmdlets
- View Administrator, View PowerCLI Cmdlet, and vdmadmin Operations
- View PowerCLI Cmdlet Parameters
- Examples of Using View PowerCLI Cmdlets
- Displaying Information About a View Connection Server Instance
- Updating the Configuration of a View Connection Server Instance
- Managing the Configuration of vCenter Servers in View
- Managing Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Automatically Provisioned Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Manually Provisioned Desktop Pools
- Creating Manual Unmanaged Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Desktops Provisioned by RDS Hosts
- Obtaining Information About Users and Groups from Active Directory
- Managing Desktop Entitlements
- Managing Remote Sessions
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Displaying Information About Physical Computers
- Updating the Ownership of Machines
- Displaying Information About Events
- Managing the Global Configuration of View
- Managing View Licenses
- Examples of Using View PowerCLI for Enhanced Functionality
- Assign Multiple Network Labels to a Desktop Pool
- Customizing LDAP Data
- Integrating with SCOM
- View Management Packs
- Name a View Connection Server Group
- Import the View MPs
- View Discovery Script
- Run the Discovery Script
- Display Discovered Objects
- Display Managed Objects
- Views and Monitors
- Enable a Proxy Agent on a Server
- Display Performance Data
- Display Information About an Alert
- Restart a Service
- Exclude a Domain from Connectivity Monitoring
- Close Alerts
- Class and Relationship Definitions
- Examining PCoIP Session Statistics
- Dynamically Setting Desktop Policies with Start Session Scripts
- Index
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You can use VMware and Microsoft command tools to export and import LDAP configuration data in LDAP
Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files from and into View. These commands are intended for use by advanced
administrators who want to use scripts to update configuration data without using View Administrator. If you
want to create scripts to update the View configuration, VMware recommends that you use View PowerCLI
rather than LDAP commands.
This chapter includes the following topics:
“LDAP Configuration Data” on page 59
“Export LDAP Configuration Data” on page 60
“Modify LDAP Configuration Data” on page 60
“Import LDAP Configuration Data” on page 63
“Import LDAP Configuration Data Using the LDIFDE Command” on page 64
LDAP Configuration Data
All View configuration data is stored in an LDAP directory. Each View Connection Server standard or replica
instance contains a local LDAP configuration repository and a replication agreement between each of the View
Connection Server instances. This arrangement ensures that changes to one repository are automatically
replicated to all the other repositories.
When you use View Administrator to modify the configuration of View, the appropriate LDAP data in the
repository is updated. For example, if you add a desktop pool, View stores information about users, user
groups, and entitlements in LDAP. The View Connection Server instances manage other LDAP configuration
data automatically, and they use the information in the repository to control View operations.
You can use LDIF files to perform a number of tasks.
To transfer configuration data between View Connection Server instances.
To define a large number of View objects, such as desktop pools, and add these to your View Connection
Server instances without using View Administrator to do this manually.
To back up your View configuration so that you can restore the state of a View Connection Server instance.
In View 3.1 and later, regular backups of the LDAP repository are made automatically.
LDAP configuration data is transferred as plain ASCII text and conforms to the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) RFC 2849 standard.
Customizing LDAP Data
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