horizon 6 view composer local administrator password; running SviConfig

[alainap84]

Hi everyone, I am new to my position and do not have the local administrator password for the Horizon 6 view composer server. I am having issues with desktops not deleting so I need to manually remove them from the composer database. I am trying to run SviConfig but it ask for the local admin password.

If I change this password, where would I need to put in the new password? and is this the local admin password for the server itself? I am running composer and vcenter together.

[vJoeG]

It's been a while but IIR you can use an 'Admin' account that is part of the local administrator's group on the Composer/vCenter server.

Here's a snippit from a KB that talks about removing composer entries

VMware Knowledge Base

When you attempt to remove a linked clone reference from the View Composer database using this command:

SviConfig -operation=RemoveSviClone -VmName=VMname -AdminUser=TheLocalAdminUser -AdminPassword=TheLocalAdminPassword -ServerUrl=TheViewComposerServerURL

Where:

• VMname is the name of the virtual machine to remove
• TheLocalAdminUser is the name of the user who is part of the local administrator group. The default value is Administrator
• TheLocalAdminPassword is the password of the administrator used to connect to the View Composer server.
• TheViewComposerServerUrl is the View Composer server URL. The default value is https://localhost:18443/SviService/v2_0.

If you are a member of that group give your ID a try and see if that helps.

[Shreyskar]

Any user who is added to 'local admin' group on view composer machine, is fine and you can use that user to run sviconfig command.