SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere 5

Access the maintenance console

You can manage your application, system, and network configurations using the maintenance console for SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere. You can change your administrator password, maintenance password, generate support bundles, and start remote diagnostics.

Before you begin

Before stopping and restarting the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere service, you should suspend all schedules.

About this task

In SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere 4.6P1, you must specify a password when you first install SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere. If you upgrade from release 4.6 or earlier to release 4.6P1 or later, the earlier default password is accepted.
You must set a password for the “diag” user while enabling remote diagnostics.

To obtain the root user permission to execute the command, use the sudo <command>.

Steps

From the VMware vSphere client, select the VM where the SnapCenter VMware plug-in is located.
Right-click the VM, then on the Summary tab of the virtual appliance click Launch Remote Console to open a maintenance console window.

Log in using the default maintenance console username maint and password that you have set at the time of installation.
You can perform the following operations:
- Option 1: Application Configuration
  
  Display a summary of SnapCenter VMware plug-in
  Start or stop SnapCenter VMware plug-in service
  Change login username or password for SnapCenter VMware plug-in
  Change MySQL password
  Backup and restore MySQL, configure and list MySQL backups
- Option 2: System Configuration
  
  Reboot virtual machine
  Shut down virtual machine
  Change 'maint' user password
  Change time zone
  Change NTP server
  Enable SSH access
  Increase jail disk size (/jail)
  Upgrade
  Install VMware Tools
  Generate MFA Token
  
  MFA is always enabled, you cannot disable MFA.
- Option 3: Network Configuration
  
  Display or change IP address settings
  Display or change domain name search settings
  Display or change static routes
  Commit changes
  Ping a host
- Option 4: Support and Diagnostics
  
  Generate support bundle
  Access diagnostic shell
  Enable remote diagnostic access
  Generate core dump bundle