What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing VCM, discusses the components of vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM), various options to install VCM; including the prerequisites; and ends with fine-tuning the database server used by VCM.

Chapter 2, Configuring  VCM to Manage Your Infrastructure, discusses more about VCM configuration, and we start adding virtual infrastructure elements, installing agents, and configuring discovery.

Chapter 3, Linux Patching, shows you how to install the Software Content Repository (SCR), used to download and distribute patches, then follows all the steps required to configure, and distribute patches to managed Linux/Unix servers.

Chapter 4, Windows Patching, shows you how to configure VCM to synchronize patches with Microsoft servers, check the status of managed Windows machines, and finally install patches on demand or on schedule.

Chapter 5, Software Provisioning for Windows, discusses how VCM can be used to distribute software on managed Windows machines; whether servers or desktops, the process will be the same.

Chapter 6, Compliance Management, teaches you how to import and export compliance configurations, create compliance rules for Windows and Unix/Linux, and perform virtualization.

Chapter 7, Maintenance of VCM, discusses how to upgrade VCM, make changes in Service accounts, upgrade agents after the VCM upgrade, decommission managed machines, and offers some naming conventions to use.

Chapter 8, Integration with vROps and Scheduling, gives us more details of integrating VCM with vROps, and then using the scheduling feature of VCM to schedule reports, compliance, data collection, and so on.

Chapter 9, Troubleshooting VCM, is the final chapter and discuss various issues to troubleshoot in VCM, such as agent communication and agent upgrades. We list the basic tools used to troubleshoot, such as the job manager history and EcmDebugEventViewer.exe.