Vum, how can one avoid the atomatic install of guest agent on Red Hat linux?

[christianZ]

Hi guys,

our Linux admins don't like this automatic installations / GA_DEPLOY in VUM.

How can one disable it.

I have only found the option to remove the supported Guest OS from vci-integity.xml

<vci_vcIntegrity>

<vpxdLocation>https://pb140:443/</vpxdLocation> <!-- localhost:443 -->

<vimNameSpace>vim25</vimNameSpace>

<path>vci-vcIntegrity.dll</path>

<encryptGuestInfo>true</encryptGuestInfo>

<!-- Default wait time in seconds before rebooting the guest -->

<guestRebootTimeout>900</guestRebootTimeout>

<!-- $DOWNLOAD_AFTER_INSTALL -->

<downloadAfterInstallation>true</downloadAfterInstallation>

<!-- Maximum number of concurrent offline scan -->

<LocalTaskMax>10</LocalTaskMax>

<!-- Maximum number of concurrent task on a ESX server -->

<EsxTaskMax>10</EsxTaskMax>

<!--

To add a list of supported GuestOSes edit the following

The values comes from Vim::Vm::GuestOsDescriptor.h

<supportedWindowsGuestIds>

<winVista64Guest/>

</supportedWindowsGuestIds>

<supportedLinuxGuestIds>

<rhel5_64Guest/>

</supportedLinuxGuestIds>

-->

</vci_vcIntegrity>

but I dont like this way.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

Christian

[christianZ]

Nobody?

The VUM will install the Guest Agent on each RH vm - so maybe someone doesn't want to get it installed.

[kjb007]

You could always move the guest agent rpm from your VUM server docroot, and then install as required on servers you do want to have the agent.

C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\docroot\vci\guestAgent

-KjB

[amoralejo]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem and I really don't like to have the package automatically installed and the service running. I've found that renaming the rpm file i can avoid the installation but i still see all those messages in the update manager about vm reconfiguring from user com.vmware.vcIntegrity. I've event removed the rhel line from the vci-integrity.xml file but it remains the same.

A strange thing is that in the xml file the supported version seems to be rhel5 and we are using rhel4.

Any idea about how to manage this in the best way?

Best regards,

Alfredo

[tiagocruz]

Hello,

I'm gottiig one problem like this too.

I've disabeld the "VmwareUpdate Manager Service".. sounds like he is the root ofcom.vmware.vcintegrity

I have a lot of problems using GFS/NFS and I would like to know if you also have this problems...

Message was edited by: tiagocruz - NFS/GFS