Integration
Table Of Contents
- View Integration
- Contents
- View Integration
- Introduction to View Integration
- Integrating View with the Event Database
- Using View PowerCLI
- Getting Started with View PowerCLI
- View Administrator, View PowerCLI, and vdmadmin Compared
- View PowerCLI cmdlet Reference
- View PowerCLI cmdlet Parameters
- Examples of Using View PowerCLI cmdlets
- Managing View Connection Server Instances
- Managing vCenter Server Instances in View
- Managing Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Automatically Provisioned Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Manually Provisioned Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Manual Unmanaged Desktop Pools
- Displaying Information About Users and Groups
- Managing Desktop Entitlements
- Managing Remote Sessions
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Displaying Information About Physical Machines
- Updating Virtual Machine Ownership
- Displaying Event Reports
- Displaying and Updating Global Settings
- Displaying and Adding License Keys
- Examples of Using View PowerCLI to Perform Advanced Tasks
- Assigning Multiple Network Labels to a Desktop Pool
- Network Label Configuration File Format
- Example Network Label Configuration File
- Obtain and Export NIC and Network Label Information
- Verify and Edit a Network Label Configuration File
- Deploy a Desktop Pool That Uses Multiple Network Labels
- Displaying Network Label Assignments for a Pool
- Displaying Network Label Assignments for a Virtual Machine
- Displaying vCenter Server Network Label Assignments for a Virtual Machine
- Disable Automatic Network Label Assignments
- Customizing LDAP Data
- Integrating View with Microsoft SCOM
- Setting Up a SCOM Integration
- Assign a Name to the View Connection Server Group
- View Management Packs
- Import the View Management Packs on the SCOM Server
- Enable a Proxy Agent on a View Connection Server Host or Security Server
- Run the Discovery Script in the Operations Manager Console
- View Connection Server and Security Server Managed Objects
- View Object Classes and Relationships
- Monitoring View in the Operations Manager Console
- Setting Up a SCOM Integration
- Examining PCoIP Session Statistics with WMI
- Setting Desktop Policies with Start Session Scripts
- Index
Modifying LDAP Configuration Data
You can export LDAP configuration data on a View Connection Server instance to an LDIF configuration
file, modify the LDIF configuration file, and import the modified LDIF configuration file into other View
Connection Server instances to perform automatic bulk configuration operations.
You can obtain examples of LDIF syntax for any item of LDAP configuration data in View by examining the
contents of an exported LDIF configuration file. For example, you can extract the data for a desktop pool
and use that data as a template to create a large number of desktop pools.
Export LDAP Configuration Data
You can use the vdmexport command-line utility to export configuration data from a standard or replica
View Connection Server instance to an LDIF configuration file.
By default, the vdmexport command-line utility is installed in the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware
View\Server\tools\bin directory.
Procedure
1 Log in to a standard or replica View Connection server instance.
Option Action
View 3.1 and earlier
Log in as an administrator and be a member of the Local Administrators
user group.
View 4.5 and later
Log in as a user in the Administrators or Administrators (Read only) role.
NOTE You must be logged in as a user in the Administrators or
Administrators (Read only) role to export configuration data from the
View configuration repository.
2
At the command prompt, type the vdmexport command and use the -f option to specify the name of the
LDIF configuration file to export.
For example: vdmexport -f myexport.LDF
Alternatively, you can redirect the output instead of using the -f option.
For example: vdmexport > myexport.LDF
The vdmexport command writes the configuration of your View Connection Server instance to the file that
you specify. The command displays errors if your role has insufficient privileges to view the data in the
configuration repository.
Defining a Desktop Pool in an LDIF Configuration File
You can define a desktop pool in an LDIF configuration file and import the customized LDIF configuration
file to create a large number of desktop pools.
NOTE You can also create customized LDIF configuration files for other objects that are defined in the
LDAP repository, including global configuration settings, configuration settings for a specific View
Connection Server instance or security server, and configuration settings for a specific user.
To define a desktop pool in an LDIF configuration file, you must add the following entries to the file.
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A Virtual Desktop VM entry for each virtual desktop in the desktop pool
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A VM Pool entry for each desktop pool
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A Desktop Application entry that defines the entitlement of the desktop pool
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