vSphere Management Assistance (vMA)
– vMA Homepage
The vMA appliance homepage can be found here.
– vMA 4.1 appliance download location
http://download3.vmware.com/software/vma/vMA-4.1.0.0-268837.ovf
– Reconfigure vMA network settings
The /opt/vmware/vima/bin/vmware-vma-netconf.pl script allow to reconfigure your netwerk settings
– Customizing vMA Time Zone and Keyboard
See this link
– Configure Syslog to collect ESX and ESXi logs
See this link and link
– Securing Credentials in vMA 4.1
See this link
– vMA 4.1 Active Directory Integration
See this link
– Updating vMA
Scan the depot for applicable bulletins by running the following command:
sudo vima-update scan
Install all updates by running the following command:
sudo vima-update update
Proxy settings can be in the set in the /etc/vmware/esxupdate/vmaupdate.conf file
vSphere Management Assistanc
– Using vMA as ESXi Syslog server
Simon Long has a great blog on it.
– Restart management agents in ESXi via SSH
/sbin/services.sh restart
Restarts the hostd, ntpd, sfcdb, sfcbd-watchdog, slpd and the wsmand service