Administration

vdmadmin Command Usage
The syntax of the vdmadmin command controls its operation.
Use the following form of the vdmadmin command from a Windows command prompt.
vdmadmin command_option [additional_option argument] ...
The additional options that you can use depend on the command option.
By default, the path to the vdmadmin command executable file is C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware
View\Server\tools\bin. To avoid having to enter the path on the command line, add the path to your PATH
environment variable.
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You must run the vdmadmin command as a user who is in the Administrators role for a specified action
to succeed.
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Some vdmadmin command options allow you to specify the format of the output information.
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You use the command options of the vdmadmin command to specify the operation that you want it to
perform.
vdmadmin Command Authentication
You must run the vdmadmin command as a user who is in the Administrators role for a specified action to
succeed.
You can use View Administrator to assign the Administrators role to a user. See Chapter 4, “Configuring
Role-Based Delegated Administration,” on page 63.
If you are logged in as a user with insufficient privileges, you can use the -b option to run the command as a
user who has been assigned the Administrators role, if you know that user's password. You can specify the
-b option to run the vdmadmin command as the specified user in the specified domain. The following usage
forms of the -b option are equivalent.
-b username domain [password | *]
-b username@domain [password | *]
-b domain\username [password | *]
If you specify an asterisk (*) instead a password, you are prompted to enter the password, and the vdmadmin
command does not leave sensitive passwords in the command history on the command line.
You can use the -b option with all command options except the -R and -T options.
vdmadmin Command Output Format
Some vdmadmin command options allow you to specify the format of the output information.
Table 13-1 shows the options that some vdmadmin command options provide for formatting output text.
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