Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Administration Guide

8.6.1 Registering a virtual system host

This subsection explains how to register a virtual host in the system hierarchy. To register a new virtual host, you can either invoke the Register Host window from the IM Configuration Management window, or import the virtualization configuration information of VMware ESX.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Registering from the Register Host window

(2) Importing the virtualization configuration information

(1) Registering from the Register Host window

To register a new virtual host by invoking the Register Host window from the IM Configuration Management window:

In the IM Configuration Management window, click the Host List tab to open the Host List page.

Use either of the following methods to open the Register Host window:

In the tree pane, select Host List, and from the menu bar, choose Edit and then Register Host.

In the tree pane, select Host List, and from the popup menu that opens when you right-click the mouse, choose Register Host.

Specify the items displayed in the Register Host window and register the new host.
Select Virtual host for the host type, and specify for the VMM host the name of a host on which the virtual machine monitor is running.

(2) Importing the virtualization configuration information

If you are using VMware ESX as the virtual machine monitor, register the new virtual host by exporting the virtualization configuration information of VMware ESX and merging it with the exported configuration information of IM Configuration Management. Then, import the merged result into IM Configuration Management. The procedure follows.

Execute the jcfexport -m command.
This step exports the host list that IM Configuration Management has.

Execute the jcfcolvmesx command.
This step acquires the virtual host name from VMware ESX and outputs it to a file.

Change the host_input_data.csv file name.
Change the name of the host_input_data.csv file that was output by the jcfexport command to a different name.

Execute the jcfmkhostsdata command.
Merge the file that was output in Step 2 with the file whose name was changed in Step 3, and then output the result to the directory exported in Step 1 as the host_input_data.csv file.

Execute the jcfimport -a command.
Specify the directory exported in Step 1 and import the host_input_data.csv file, and then register it in the host list.

When you use the jcfimport command to import the virtualization configuration information, three types of information that IM Configuration Management has, namely host, system hierarchy, and profile, are deleted. To manage profiles, you need to collect these three types of information after importation. The procedure follows.

In the IM Configuration Management window, open the Host List page.

From the tree pane, select Host List, and then select all hosts displayed in Lower Host Information.

From the menu bar, choose Operation and then Collect Host Information.

From the menu bar, choose Operation and then Collect IM Configuration.

From the menu bar, choose Operation and then Batch Collect Profiles.
Batch collection of profiles is executed.

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