Administration

Maintaining View Components 6
To keep your View components available and running, you can perform a variety of maintenance tasks.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Backing Up and Restoring View Configuration Data,” on page 89
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“Monitor View Components,” on page 97
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“Monitor Machine Status,” on page 97
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“Understanding View Services,” on page 98
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“Change the Product License Key,” on page 100
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“Monitoring Product License Usage,” on page 100
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“Update General User Information from Active Directory,” on page 101
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“Migrate View Composer to Another Machine,” on page 102
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“Update the Certificates on a View Connection Server Instance, Security Server, or View Composer,”
on page 107
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“Information Collected by the Customer Experience Improvement Program,” on page 108
Backing Up and Restoring View Configuration Data
You can back up your View and View Composer configuration data by scheduling or running automatic
backups in View Administrator. You can restore your View configuration by manually importing the
backed-up View LDAP files and View Composer database files.
You can use the backup and restore features to preserve and migrate View configuration data.
Backing Up View Connection Server and View Composer Data
After you complete the initial configuration of View Connection Server, you should schedule regular
backups of your View and View Composer configuration data. You can preserve your View and View
Composer data by using View Administrator.
View stores View Connection Server configuration data in the View LDAP repository. View Composer
stores configuration data for linked-clone desktops in the View Composer database.
When you use View Administrator to perform backups, View backs up the View LDAP configuration data
and View Composer database. Both sets of backup files are stored in the same location. The View LDAP
data is exported in encrypted LDAP data interchange format (LDIF). For a description of View LDAP, see
“View LDAP Directory,” on page 38.
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