VMware View Manager 4.5 Installation Manual page 55

Procedure
1 Open your Web browser and enter the following URL, where server is the host name or IP address of the
View Connection Server instance.
server /admin
https://
You access View Administrator by using a secure (SSL) connection. When you first connect, your Web
browser might display a page warning that the security certificate associated with the address is not issued
by a trusted certificate authority. This response is expected behavior because the default certificate
supplied with View Connection Server is self-signed.
2 Click Ignore to continue using the current SSL certificate.
3 Log in using administrator credentials on the View Connection Server computer.
Initially, all users who are members of the local Administrators group (BUILTIN\Administrators) on the
View Connection Server computer are allowed to log in to View Administrator.
After you log in to View Administrator, you can use View Configuration > Administrators to change the
list of View Manager administrators.
Install the View Connection Server License Key
Before you can use View Connection Server, you must enter the product license key.
The first time you log in, View Administrator displays the Product Licensing and Usage page.
After you install the license key, View Administrator displays the dashboard page when you log in.
You do not have to configure a license key when you install a replicated View Connection Server instance or
a security server. Replicated instances and security servers use the common license key stored in the View
LDAP configuration.
N You must use a View 4.x license key for View Connection Server 4.x. A license key provided with
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View 3.x or earlier does not work with the new license model introduced in View 4.x.
Procedure
1 If the View Configuration view is not displayed, click View Configuration in the left navigation pane.
2 Click Product Licensing and Usage.
3 On the Product Licensing table, click Edit License and enter the View Manager license serial number.
4 Click OK.
5 Verify the license expiration date.
Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
You must configure View Manager to connect to the vCenter Server instances in your View deployment.
vCenter Server creates and manages the virtual machines that View Manager uses as desktop sources.
Prerequisites
Install the View Connection Server product license key.
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Prepare a vCenter Server user with permission to perform the operations in vCenter Server that are
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necessary to support View Manager. To use View Composer, you must give the user additional privileges.
To manage desktops that are used in local mode, you must give the user privileges in addition to those
that are required for View Manager and View Composer. See
Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode,"
VMware, Inc.
Chapter 5 Installing View Connection Server
"Configure a vCenter Server User for View
on page 51.
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