Registering agents via CLI
Hello All, Are there any ways to register manually installed agents via some sort of CLI, instead of the web interface? Or such functionality ain't supported? --Best Regards,Sergii Gnitko
View ArticleDeploying patches and multiple reboots
How do I define within a deployment to reboot the target server multiple times until all the patches are deployed? For example a server needs 20 patches and 3 reboots to completely deploy all the...
View ArticleVCM Installation Reccomendation - to be installed on a VM or physical
Guys,We are in process of planning to install and configure VCM in our environment. We have both Physical and Virtual servers in radar, to be managed by VCM. Our first choice is weather we should...
View ArticleBest practices for managing domain controllers thru VCM 5.7.1
I have just implemented VCM 5.7.1 and have added servers that we need to manage, however when it came to adding the Domain Controller, it was not possible to add the NA account to local admin as we...
View ArticleWhere do the scheduled compliance jobs go?
Hi, I have a job to run a compliance. it says 100% completed (147 of 147) but the result is nowhere to be seen... any idea? thanks
View ArticleVCM Collection on vCenter Appliance
How do you do a collection on a vCenter Appliance, as opposed to a Windows vCenter Server?
View ArticleWhen VMware will release new version?
The current version is not very easy to install, configure and operate from my experience.I'm looking for new version, but looks like it's be half a year.
View Article"retrieving data" indefinitely in the vCM console
When I try to display the "templates" folder, under the "Virtual Environment Comliance" folder, under the "compliance" section of the vCM console, it does not display the templates. The status bar on...
View Articletwo tier installation with SQL server listening on non-default port
Hi guys, I am deploying VCM 5.7.1 and have installed an SQL server 2012 instance in my database server listening on TCP 1434. On my web and collector server, I run the setup and when prompted to...
View ArticleDownloading Templates to make available for Offline VCM
Our instance of VCM does not have access to the Internet. How can I download compliance templates and get them to VCM? I saw a few were available on SolutionsExchange, but I need the vSphere Hardening...
View ArticlevCM 5.7.1 - Failure Collecting Event Log Data - "Unknown Error: -2147024891"
When attempting to collect on certain Windows 2003 Servers I'm receiving the error "Unknown Error: -2147024891". The application is utilizing a domain level service account that should have all the...
View ArticleVCM database size & tuning
Has anybody had to shrink the size of the VCM database? Ours appears to be growing out of control, it's 71GB and we only have 280 machines licensed in VCM. I've opened support cases and they just...
View ArticleVCM 5.7.1 license update issue
Hi All,when i update VCM license by Jlicense according to vmware sk2020955.The command shows " license applied sucessfully".But when I login by web console, the there is still "license expired"...
View ArticlevCM 5.6 not seeing global security group
Hello all,We're having an issue with vCM 5.6 not seeing global security when adding machine security group during compliance template creation. We currently have two forests. Forest1.local and...
View ArticleVCM installation help needed on SQL DB and Reporting server
Hi All, I'm new to VCM and now i got stuck at the SQL DB and Report server portion.I'm running the vcm server on VM and the SQL is a physical server, both are sitting on the same LAN.I have create the...
View ArticleContent Wizard not importing updates int VCM database
When I use the Content Wizard tool to import updates from the internet, It appears to work correctly, but the compliance updates do not show up in VCM. I run the Content wizard again and the updates...
View ArticleVCM installation help
Hi All, I having troubles with SQL DB validatation, on the installation page.The SQL DB is reside on a physical server and VCM server is as VM itself, but siting on the same LAN. Please help to provide...
View ArticleHow do I check the immutable flag using VCM?
So VCM is patching our Oracle Linux servers great now (thank you 5.7.2) however there is an issue. On some of our servers the immutable flag is set on grub.conf. This is simple to fix. Just do a...
View ArticleNeverFail BCP product and VCM
We have 2 Windows 2008 servers - hostnames are server1 and server2. Both have the VCM (SCM) agent installed and can successfully communicate with the VCM server. Our users want to use a BCP client...
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Bad Request - Invalid Verb
Has anyone seen this before? I'm logged in as an admin. No matter what role, I get this error. This is a single tier installation. I have tried rebooting the VM as well. All VCM services are...
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