Administration

Examples
Disable generating View events in Syslog format.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -disable
Direct Syslog output of View events to the local system only.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -enable -localOnly
Direct Syslog output of View events to a specified path.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -enable -path path
Direct Syslog output of View events to a specified path that requires access by an authorized domain user.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -enable -path \\logserver\share\ViewEvents -user mydomain\myuser
-password mypassword
Assigning Dedicated Machines Using the ‑L Option
You can use the vdmadmin command with the -L option to assign machines from a dedicated pool to users.
Syntax
vdmadmin -L [-b authentication_arguments] -d desktop -m machine -u domain\user
vdmadmin -L [-b authentication_arguments] -d desktop [-m machine | -u domain\user] -r
Usage Notes
View assigns machines to users when they first connect to a dedicated desktop pool. Under some
circumstances, you might want to preassign machines to users. For example, you might want to prepare
their system environments in advance of their initial connection. After a user connects to a remote desktop
that View assigns from a dedicated pool, the virtual machine that hosts the desktop remains assigned to the
user for the life span of the virtual machine. You can assign a user to a single machine in a dedicated pool.
You can assign a machine to any entitled user. You might want to do this when recovering from the loss of
View LDAP data on a View Connection Server instance, or when you want to change ownership of a
particular machine.
After a user connects to a remote desktop that View assigns from a dedicated pool, that remote desktop
remains assigned to the user for the life span of the virtual machine that hosts the desktop. You might want
to remove the assignment of a machine to a user who has left the organization, who no longer requires
access to the desktop, or who will use a desktop in a different desktop pool. You can also remove
assignments for all users who access a desktop pool.
NOTE The vdmadmin -L command does not assign ownership to View Composer persistent disks. To assign
linked-clone desktops with persistent disks to users, use the Assign User menu option in View
Administrator or the View PowerCLI Update-UserOwnership cmdlet.
If you do use vdmadmin -L to assign a linked-clone desktop with a persistent disk to a user, unexpected
results can occur in certain situations. For example, if you detach a persistent disk and use it to recreate a
desktop, the recreated desktop is not assigned to the owner of the original desktop.
Options
Table 13-9 shows the options that you can specify to assign a desktop to a user or to remove an assignment.
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