VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE CONTENT REPOSITORY TOOL GUIDE Manual page 14

vCenter Configuration Manager Software Content Repository Tool Guide
I By default, each replication script is configured to require between 512 MB of RAM
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(minimum) and 1 GB (maximum). If you will be running multiple scripts simultaneously on a single
machine, ensure that the machine has sufficient memory to support each process. Insufficient memory
may cause errors.
You may need to update each platform's replication script to change the path, platform, distribution,
architecture, third-party credentials, extract parameter, output file, and input file path. You can use any
combination of platform, distribution, and architecture.
To update the replication scripts, follow these steps.
1. Locate the UNIX/Linux replication scripts in the directory named
<scr_root> SCR-2.0\bin. The script names are as follows:
Platform
Red Hat
AIX
HP-UX
SUSE
Solaris
Mac OS X
2. Obtain an encrypted password using the password encryptor tool (pwd_encryptor.sh) by following
these steps:
a. At the root prompt, enter:
# ./pwd_encryptor.sh
The encryptor tool will return the string "MyPassword".
b. Enter your password twice, ignoring the strings returned by the encryptor tool.
c. When the encryptor tool returns the encrypted password string, you will copy the string into
encrypted password field of the -thirdparty -user <username> -pwd <encrypted
password> string in the replication script, as described in the next step.
3. Update the command line parameters in the replication scripts for the platforms you will be using.
C The command line parameters listed here are the only parameters that may be modified in
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a typical installation environment.
-checkPayload
The -checkPayload option defaults to false if it is not included on the command line, or is
not explicitly set to true. If -checkPayload is false (or not provided), the behavior is to
download and loop through each new/modified .pls file, downloading any payload data (.plp
files and vendor patch files) that correspond to each .pls file downloaded during the process.
If true, the SCR Tool validates every payload file for every .pls file, whether new/modified or
not. This feature allows the SCR Tool to audit/verify payload content for .pls files,
downloading or replacing payload files if they do not match what the .pls/.plp files indicate
they should be.
-folder <SCR_output_folder>
Defines the root folder where the SCR Tool output will be stored. By default, this
folder is set to
following sub-directory tree under the root output folder.
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Shell Script Name
start_rh_replication.sh
start_aix_replication.sh
start_hp_replication.sh
start_suse_replication.sh
start_sol_replication.sh
start_osx_replication.sh
The SCR Tool automatically creates the
/tmp/SCR/download.
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