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adrian_des
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Disabling downloads from VC web welcome page

How can I disable the "Download the Virtual Infrastructure Client &

Download the Quick Start Guide " from the VC2 web welcome page? Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

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conradsia
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Edit the 'index.html' file from within /var/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot

and remove the lines:

To access and manage your VMware ESX Server host, you must download and install the VMware Infrastructure Client on a computer running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later. After running the installer, start the client and log in to this server.



<a href="https://communities.vmware.com/client/VMware-viclient.exe">Download the VMware Infrastructure Client</a>

    1. [Download the Quick Start Guide | http://www.vmware.com/info?id=196]

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esiebert7625
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Is this on the ESX Server or the VC Windows Server? I thought the webapp was installed on the Tomcat instance of the VC Server?

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conradsia
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This is on the ESX server, I tested it and it worked for me.

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esiebert7625
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But if you hit the VC server directly it has it's own web content and Tomcat installation. I looked all over on the VC server and could not find the welcome page file to modify. Any ideas for that?

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conradsia
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hmm, Tomcat is a beast that I know nothing about, the page is probably auto generated by some .jsp or file.

If I find anything, i'll post.

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esiebert7625
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Thanks, I spent over an hour looking through jsp code and doing text searches and could not find it anywhere. It was baffling to me. I have one of our java developers looking at it to see if he can fgiure it out.

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sunchaser
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Has somebody figured out in the meantime how to deactivate the link inside the VC website?

Thanks in advance

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esiebert7625
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• ESX Server: Edit the 'index.html' file from within /var/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot

• VC Windows Server: Edit the ‘index.html’ in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\docRoot

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