Administration

The additional options that you can use depend on the command option. This topic focuses on the options
for message security mode. For the other options, which relate to Cloud Pod Architecture, see the
Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture document.
By default, the path to the vdmutil command executable file is C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware
View\Server\tools\bin. To avoid entering the path on the command line, add the path to your PATH
environment variable.
Authentication
You must run the command as a user who has the Administrators role. You can use View Administrator to
assign the Administrators role to a user. See Chapter 4, “Configuring Role-Based Delegated
Administration,” on page 63.
The vdmutil command includes options to specify the user name, domain, and password to use for
authentication.
Table 2‑5. vdmutil Command Authentication Options
Option Description
--authAs
Name of a View administrator user. Do not use domain\username or user principal name
(UPN) format.
--authDomain Fully qualified domain name for the View administrator user specified in the --authAs
option.
--authPassword Password for the View administrator user specified in the --authAs option. Entering "*"
instead of a password causes the vdmutil command to prompt for the password and does
not leave sensitive passwords in the command history on the command line.
You must use the authentication options with all vdmutil command options except for --help and
--verbose.
Options Specific to JMS Message Security Mode
The following table lists only the vdmutil command-line options that pertain to viewing, setting, or
monitoring the JMS message security mode. For a list of the arguments you can use with a specific option,
use the --help command-line option.
The vdmutil command returns 0 when an operation succeeds and a failure-specific non-zero code when an
operation fails. The vdmutil command writes error messages to standard error. When an operation produces
output, or when verbose logging is enabled by using the --verbose option, the vdmutil command writes
output to standard output, in US English.
Table 2‑6. vdmutil Command Options
Option Description
--activatePendingConnectionServerCertificates
Activates a pending security certificate for a View Connection Server
instance in the local pod.
--countPendingMsgSecStatus
Counts the number of machines preventing a transition to or from
Enhanced mode.
--createPendingConnectionServerCertificates
Creates a new pending security certificate for a View Connection
Server instance in the local pod.
--getMsgSecLevel
Gets the enhanced message security status for the local pod. This
status pertains to the process of changing the JMS message security
mode from Enabled to Enhanced for all the components in a View
environment.
--getMsgSecMode
Gets the message security mode for the local pod.
--help Lists the vdmutil command options. You can also use --help on a
particular command, such as --setMsgSecMode --help.
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