Administration

You can also use the vdmadmin command with the -S option to remove a security server from your View
environment. You do not have to use this option if you intend to upgrade or reinstall a security server
without removing it permanently.
To make the removal permanent, perform these tasks:
1 Uninstall the View Connection Server instance or security server from the Windows Server computer
by running the View Connection Server installer.
2 Remove the Adam Instance VMwareVDMDS program from the Windows Server computer by running
the Add or Remove Programs tool.
3 On another View Connection Server instance, use the vdmadmin command to remove the entry for the
uninstalled View Connection Server instance or security server from the configuration.
If you want to reinstall View on the removed systems without replicating the View configuration of the
original group, restart all the View Connection Server hosts in the original group before performing the
reinstallation. This prevents the reinstalled View Connection Server instances from receiving configuration
updates from their original group.
Options
The -s option specifies the NetBIOS name of the View Connection Server instance or security server to be
removed.
Examples
Remove the entry for the View Connection Server instance connsvr3.
vdmadmin -S -r -s connsvr3
Providing Secondary Credentials for Administrators Using the ‑T
Option
You can use the vdmadmin command with the -T option to provide Active Directory secondary credentials to
administrator users.
Syntax
vdmadmin -T [-b authentication_arguments] -domainauth
{-add | -update | -remove | -removeall | -list} -owner domain\user -user domain\user [-password
password]
Usage Notes
If your users and groups are in a domain with a one-way trust relationship with the View Connection Server
domain, you must provide secondary credentials for the administrator users in View Administrator.
Administrators must have secondary credentials to give them access to the one-way trusted domains. A
one-way trusted domain can be an external domain or a domain in a transitive forest trust.
Secondary credentials are required only for View Administrator sessions, not for end users' desktop or
application sessions. Only administrator users require secondary credentials.
With the vdmadmin command, you configure secondary credentials on a per-user basis. You cannot configure
globally specified secondary credentials.
For a forest trust, typically you only have to configure secondary credentials for the forest root domain.
View Connection Server can then enumerate the child domains in the forest trust.
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