Configure vCenter Operations
After the vApp is deployed, you must do
several things to properly configure vCenter Operations to get
everything working. You should complete the configuration before
deploying the integration to VMware View.
To configure vCenter Operations Manager, you
must log in to the UI virtual appliance. To determine which IP, you
should browse to select the UI VM from your Hosts and Clusters view in
the vSphere client and note the
IP address on the Summary tab under the General section. When you have
the IP address, browse to the appliance using a web browser, that is,
http://[IP Address]/admin. The default username for the vCenter UI
Console is admin, and the password is admin (see Figure 7).
Figure 7. Log in to configure vCenter Operations.
After you log in, the registration wizard
begins. It prompts you to reset the default password and register your
vCenter Operations application with vCenter. You can have vCenter
Operations monitor several vCenter Servers, so multiple registrations
are allowed. To register a vCenter, provide the IP and an account that
has access to everything (typically, the administrator). When you are
registered, your vCenter configuration should look similar to Figure 8.
Figure 8. Register the vCenter Server.
You also need
to configure SMTP if you would like to have alerting enabled in the
vCenter Operations application. To configure it, click the SMPT/SNMP tab and enable Enable Report Email Service;
then supply the SMTP Server address and port (typically port 25). Also
provide a default sender name and default sender e-mail address that
the alerts will come from. To save the configuration, click Update.
