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Full details of all the command's switch options are available from the built-in help, by
running vmware-umds -H. Figure 4.7 shows the UMDS utility being run from the command
prompt. Along with the basic switches that can be seen in Figure 4.7, the full help i le provides
all the arguments and provides a series of examples of common usage tasks.
Figure 4.7
You must confi gure
the UMDS utility
at the command
prompt.
There are two different designs for using UMDS:
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The VUM server does not have network connectivity to the UMDS server. In this case
you need to move the downloaded patches and metadata to a removable media drive and
physically transfer the data via old-fashioned “sneakernet.”
The VUM server can connect to the UMDS server. Although the VUM server may not be
allowed to connect directly to the Internet, if it can hit the UMDS, then it can effectively use
it as a web proxy. You need to coni gure a web server on the UMDS server, such as IIS or
Apache. Then the VUM server can connect to the UMDS server and download its patches.
This is also typically the approach you would take if you wanted to use UMDS as a central-
ized download server for several VUM instances.
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At this point VUM is installed, but you have no way to manage it. In order to manage VUM,
you must install the vSphere Client and the VUM plug-in for vCenter Server, as we discuss in
the next section.
Installing the vSphere Update Manager Plug-in
The tools to manage and coni gure VUM are implemented as a vCenter Server plug-in and are
completely integrated into vCenter Server and the vSphere Client. However, to access these
tools, you must i rst install and register the plug-in in the vSphere Client. This enables the
vSphere Client to manage and coni gure VUM by adding an Update Manager tab and some
extra context menu commands to objects in the vSphere Client. vSphere Client plug-ins are
managed on a per-client basis; that is, each installation of the vSphere Client needs to have the
plug-in installed in order to access the VUM administration tools.
Perform the following steps to install the VUM plug-in for each instance of the vSphere Client:
1.
Launch the vSphere Client if it isn't already running and connect to the vCenter Server
instance that has VUM associated with it.
