Generating Key Pairs On The Agent Proxy Machine; Uploading Keys To The Database - VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 Getting Started Manual

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generated/uploaded and distributed.
To change the password for the new user account, you must log in as the user rather than allowing an
administrator to reset the password. If the password is changed by the new user, the keys do not need to
be regenerated.

Generating Key Pairs on the Agent Proxy Machine

Use the following procedure to log in to the Collector you are using as the Agent Proxy and generate the
key pairs necessary for communication between an ESX/vSphere Server and the Agent Proxy. This
procedure assumes that you are using default installation location the for Agent (C:\WINDOWS\CMAgent).
1. Open a Command Prompt on the Agent Proxy machine.
2. Change directory to: [drive:]Program Files\VMware\VCM\Tools\Virtualization.
3. At the command prompt, run the following command: GenerateAgentProxyKeys
N If you receive an Access is denied error message, then one of the following problems has
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occurred: 1) You did not add users or groups to the CSI_COMM_PROXY_SVC group OR you did not
reboot, or 2) You are not running in a CMD shell as a user in the CSI_COMM_PROXY_SVC group.
4. Verify that the following files were generated:
<machine>_securecomm_public_key.txt
<machine>_ssh_public_key.txt
N Verify <machine> is the name of the Collector machine.
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Uploading Keys to the Database

1. Login to the Collector machine and open a Command Prompt.
2. From the command prompt, change directory to:
<install_drive:>\Program Files\VMware\VCM\Tools\Virtualization
3. From the command prompt, execute the following command (where <machine> is the name of the
Agent Proxy machine):
DatabaseUploadKey.cmd <machine>_securecomm_public_key.txt
After performing the above steps, go to
workflow. Continue with
of the workflow.
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"Configuring Agent Proxy Virtualization Collections" on page 118
"Configuring ESX/vSphere Servers" on page 123 and continue through the rest
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