vMA a prepackaged CLI VM from VMware. It could be imported into /vCenter or vSphere host only.
There are two default user at vMA: vi-admin and vi-user. user is disabled by default.vCenter server could only authenticated by vi-admin account
sudo passwd vi-user will enable vi-user account, which is not in sudoers.
sudo vifp will addtarget server to vMA. Target server could be vCenter or hosts. Of course sudo vifp could also remove targer server from vMA.vifpinit will initialize vi-fastpass to target server. Session file could also be used to fasten the authentication process.
vMA could be shut down and removed from host/vCenter just like any other VMs.
vMA could be update to date via command sudo vima-update
*vima-update is just the symbolic link to vma-update
vMA could be configured to collect log files from hosts and vCenter server according to specified log policy. vilogger is the command.
vifplib is the library for Per or Java with vi-fastpass to programmatically connect to vMA
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