The Agent (Software Delivery) policy group has been expanded to include the following configuration policies for managing the software delivery agent in VMware View environments.
Note: The RAC configuration policies in the Agent policy group apply only to Offline RAC. The traditional RAC functionality is configured by the policies in the Software Delivery, Manager policy group.
You can modify policy parameter values by double-clicking a policy to display the Setting Properties dialog.
Determines whether duplicate software procedures are excluded during OfflineRAC.
In software delivery, an install procedure is allowed to run only once, but activate and configure procedures can run multiple times. When the agent prepares the RAC container for a software package, a number of activate and configure procedures can be included. The value that is set for this policy determines how duplicate activate/configure procedures within a single software package are handled. Valid values are as follows:
Specifies all activate/configure procedures recorded in the database are run.
Specifies if any activate/configure procedures are included more than once, only the first duplicate is run.
Specifies if any activate/configure procedures are included more than once, only the last duplicate is run.
Default: re-run each duplicate activate/configure procedure
Specifies whether the agent runs software jobs in the offline RAC container as a batch or with no linkage. Valid values are as follows:
Specifies all jobs be run sequentially as a single unit of work for each target. If any job in the sequence fails, then the remaining jobs for that target are not executed.
Specifies the jobs that are run sequentially but independently from each other.
Default: Batch
Controls whether the software state database is updated when one or more jobs in the RAC container fails. If set to True, the failed job entries are deleted from the software state database. If False, the failed entries remain.
Default: True
Controls whether the Software Delivery Job Check dialog waits for the user to close the dialog if RAC fails during an interactive-mode reinstallation. For example, a value of True ensures that a RAC failure is not overlooked when the user is away from the computer.
Default: True
Defines whether a preinstall software state database is maintained when no users are assigned to the virtual desktops. A preinstall software state database is useful when virtual desktops in a pool are created and registered as agents but not yet assigned to any users. A preinstall database is useful for the administrator to push required software packages to the virtual desktops.
If set to True, a preinstall software state database is maintained on the local file system before a user is assigned to the virtual desktop. The preinstall database is merged into the assigned users instance software state database whenever the user logs in for the first time.
If set to False, the following conditions apply.
For persistent desktops, if Offline RAC is configured to run on logon, setting this policy to False results in these software packages being reinstalled because the software job records are added to the instance database instead of the preinstall database.
For nonpersistent desktops, setting this policy to False results in software delivery job records not being maintained for these software packages. Furthermore, they cannot be reinstalled when the virtual desktop is refreshed later on.
Default: True
Controls whether the software delivery agent maintains a database of its state, regardless of the VMware View functionality.
Note: This policy is mandatory and preset by the VMware View integration scripts to True. Do not manually change the set value.
Default: False, <locally managed>
Defines the maximum seconds that an agent can sleep between attempts to contact the scalability server during one job check. This policy works with the RAC: Number of reties in case of offline RAC policy. Reconnection attempts until the limit specified by either of these policies is reached.
Default: 60
Defines the maximum number of connection retries an agent can make to the scalability server during one job check. This policy works with the RAC: Maximum number of seconds to retry policy. Reconnection attempts until the limit specified by either of these policies is reached.
Default: 100
Specifies the password of the user with access permissions to the instance software state database. The password string is encrypted. If specified, the agent uses these credentials to access the network share.
We recommend that you encrypt the password first using the "sd_acmd encrypt" command. Then provide the encrypted password as one of the parameters when running the Compose.bat script, which in turn sets the configuration parameter.
Alternatively, if the password for the share location is the same for all desktop pools to be created from a particular golden template snapshot, you can set the password in the configuration policy. Then apply the policy to the golden template and the cloned virtual desktops.
Default: empty, <locally managed>
Specifies the installation path for the instance software state database. The specified path can include embedded environment variables, for example, “\\Fileserver1\Share1\%COMPUTERNAME%\InstanceSoftwareDatabase”.
Note: This policy is mandatory, but enter the path manually as one of the parameters when running the Compose.bat script. This script in turn sets the configuration parameter.
Default: empty, <locally managed>
Specifies the installation path for the template software state database. If the value is empty, the agent uses the appropriate unit-specific path, that is, “<ITCM InstallDir>\SD\ASM\DATABASE\Agent\TemplateSoftwareDatabase”.
Default: empty, <locally managed>
Controls the RAC Policy setting of the software delivery agent. If set to True, the RAC Policy of the agent is set to Offline. If False, RAC Policy is set to the default RAC setting.
Note: This policy is mandatory and preset by the VMware View integration scripts to True. Do not manually change the set value.
The valueset here defaults to the Software Delivery tab of the Computer Properties dialog.
Default: False, <locally managed>
Allows the agent to distinguish between running on a golden template or a clone. If True, the agent runs on a golden template.
Note: This policy is mandatory and preset by the VMware View integration scripts.
Default: False, <locally managed>
Specifies the name of the user with access permissions to the instance software state database. The user name must be formatted as: (domainname | local\)'user'. The string is encrypted. If specified, the agent uses these credentials to access the network share.
We recommend that you encrypt the user name first using the "sd_acmd encrypt" command. Then provide the encrypted user name as one of the parameters when running the Compose.bat script, which in turn sets the configuration parameter.
Alternatively, if the user name for the share location is the same for all desktop pools to be created from a particular golden template snapshot, you can optionally set the user name in the configuration policy. Then apply the policy to the golden template and the cloned virtual desktops.
Note: By default, when a folder is shared its permissions include only the "Everyone" group with Read access permissions. To ensure that the instance software state database gets saved over a network, the network share must also include the user here in the Share Permissions tab with Full Control (WRITE) access.
Default: empty, <locally managed>
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