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When deployed in a WAN with different IP address on the servers in the cluster, you must perform additional configuration to allow vCenter Server Support Tools to operate properly.

1. On the Secondary server, if VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy is installed, open the IIS Manager and change the IP bindings for the Computer Account Management Web Site. By default this runs on the Primary Principal (Public) IP address and should be changed to the Secondary Principal (Public) IP address.
   
   
2. Restart the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC).
   
   
3. On the Primary server, for each of the vCenter Support Tools installed, edit these .xml files by replacing the IP address with the Service Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in the   node:
   
   

   Component Name	File Name
   VMware vSphere Autodeploy	vmconfig-autodeploy.xml
   vSphere Authentication Proxy	vmconfig-cam.xml extension.xml (in the  item), parameter.js (in the )
   VMware Syslog Collector	vmconfig-syslog.xml
   VMware ESXi Dump Collector	vmconfig-netdump.xml

   
   
   Note: The .xml files can be found in CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA\VMware\ directory. For example:
   • On Windows 2008, the directory is C:\ProgramData\VMware\.
   • On Windows 2003, the directory is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\.
     
     

4. Configure VMware Auto Deploy:

   1. Navigate to the Auto Deploy install location (this can be found in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.\ “InstallPath”) and run the command:
      
      autodeploy-register.exe --register --address=FQDN --user=username --password=password --force --setupfile=autodeploy_setup_file
      
      Note: The autodeploy_setup_file is the .xml file modified in step 3.
      
      

5. Configure VMware ESXi Dump Collector (Netdump), VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy and VMware Syslog Collector:

   1. Launch a web browser and navigate to http:///mob
   2. Click Content.
   3. Click Extension Manager.
      
      

6. In the Properties pane, identify the value extensionlist[]:
   
   

   Component	extension_name
   VMware ESXi Dump Collector (Netdump)	com.vmware.netdump
   VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy	com.vmware.cam.
   VMware Syslog Collector	com.vmware.syslog

   
   
   

7. For the component VMware ESXi Dump Collector (Netdump):

   1. In the Methods pane, click the Update Extension option. A new window appears.
   2. Paste this script in the Value field, overwriting the existing one:
      
      Note: The extension_name is c om.vmware.netdump.
      
      
      
      vCenter Network Coredump Plugin
      
      Describes the configuration of the Network Coredump Server
      
      
      com.vmware.netdump
      VMware, Inc.
      1.0.0
      
      
      http://*:8000/extension.xml
      
      vCenter Network Coredump Plugin
      
      Describes the configuration of the Network Coredump Server
      
      
      VMware, Inc.
      com.vmware.vim.viClientScripts
      
      [email protected]
      
      
      
      2011-06-29T09:20:17.129999Z
      
      
      
   3. Click Invoke Method. The response should be:
      
      Method Invocation Result: void
      
      
8. For the component VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy:
   1. In the Methods pane, click the UpdateExtension option. A new window appears.
   2. Paste this script in the Value field, overwriting the existing one:
      
      Note: The extension_name is com.vmware.cam..
      
      Important: For VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy, the .xml script below must be updated with the extension name identified in step 6 , namely the  tag. Additionally, change the  and node values if you are not using the default values.
      
      
      
      vSphere Authentication Proxy
      
      Support joining ESXi server to Active Directory Domain
      
      
      com.vmware.cam.PUBLIC_SERVICE_NAME
      VMware, Inc.
      1.0.0
      
      
      http://*:51914/extension.xml
      
      vSphere Authentication Proxy
      
      Support joining ESXi server to Active Directory Domain
      
      
      VMware, Inc.
      com.vmware.vim.viClientScripts
      
      [email protected]
      
      
      
      2011-06-29T09:37:29.41Z
      
      
      
   3. Click Invoke Method. The response should be:
      
      Method Invocation Result: void
      
      

9. For the component VMware Syslog Collector:

   1. In the Methods pane, click the UpdateExtension option. A new window appears.
   2. In the Value field, paste this script:
      
      Note: The extension_name is com.vmware.syslog.
      
      
      
      VMware Syslog Collector Configuration
      
      Describes the configuration of the remote syslog collector service
      
      
      com.vmware.syslog
      VMware, Inc.
      1.0.0
      
      
      http://*:8001/extension.xml
      
      VMware Syslog Collector Configuration
      
      Describes the configuration of the remote syslog collector service
      
      
      VMware, Inc.
      com.vmware.vim.viClientScripts
      
      [email protected]
      
      
      
      2011-06-29T09:22:39.789999Z
      
      
   3. Click Invoke Method. For each method, the response should be:
      
      Method Invocation Result: void
      
      
10. Restart the vSphere Client and verify that all the extensions are operating properly.
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