VMware ACE Use and care manual

ACE Management Server

Administrator’s Manual

VMware ACE 2.6

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Contents

AboutThisBook 7

1Introduction 9

FeaturesofACEManagementServer 9

SystemRequirements 10

RequiredHardware 10

SupportedOperatingSystems 10

SupportedExternalDatabases 10

SupportedProxies 11

RequiredWebBrowsers 11

Licensing 11

2PlanninganACEManagementServerDeployment 13

DeploymentComponents 13

HostSystemOptions 14

WindowsHosts 14

LinuxHosts 14

ServerApplianceOption 14

DatabaseOptions 15

ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationOptions 15

PerformingCapacityPlanning 15

DatabaseThroughputandScalability 16

LDAPThroughput 16

NetworkBandwidthandPolicyUpdateFrequency 16

ACEPolicyConfiguration 17

LoadBalancers 17

SecurityFeaturesandConsiderations 17

UsingSSLCertificatesandProtocol 18

AccessingACEManagementServerfromOutsidetheCorporateFirewall 19

DeploymentPlanningWorksheet 19

3InstallingandConfiguringACE Management Server 21

PreparingforInstallation 21

ConfigureTLSinYourBrowser 21

InstallingandUpgradingACEManagementServer 22

InstallanACEManagementServeronaWindowsHost 22

InstallACEManagementServeronaLinuxSystem 23

InstallanACEManagementServerAppliance 24

VerifyThattheApacheServiceIsStartedorRestarted 25

StartandConfigureACEManagementServer 26

LogIntoACEManagementServer 26

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4ConfigurationOptionsforACEManagementServer 29

PrerequisitesforConfiguringtheServer 29

CreateUsersandGroupsforIntegrationwithActiveDirectory 29

SetUpanExternalDatabase 30

CreatingaSystemDSNEntryforanExternalDatabase 31

IncreasetheNumberofDatabaseConnectionsAllowed 32

EnableDatabaseConnectionPoolingonLinux 33

SetUpaConnectionBetweentheServerApplianceandanExternalDatabase 33

PrepareCustomSecurityCertificates 33

ViewthePropertiesoftheSelf‐SignedCertificateFile 34

StartingACEManagementServerConfiguration 34

ViewingandChangingLicensingInformation 34

UsinganExternalDatabase 35

CreatingAccessControl 35

UploadingCustomSSLCertificates 36

LoggingEvents 37

ApplyingConfigurationSettings 37

5Load‐BalancingMultipleACEManagementServerInstances 39

TypicalSetupUsingLoad‐BalancedACEManagementServerInstances 40

InstalltheRequiredServicesforLoadBalancing 40

UsetheSameSSLCertificateonAllServers 41

CreateNewSSLCertificatesandKeysforEachServer 41

InstallingandConfiguringtheLoadBalancer 43

VerifyThatACEInstancesAreUsingtheLoadBalancer 43

6ManagingACEInstances 45

ViewingACEInstancesThattheServerManages 45

UsetheVMwareACEHelpDeskApplication 46

UsetheInstanceViewinWorkstation 46

SearchforanInstance 47

SortbyColumnHeadingandChangeColumnWidth 47

Show,Hide,andMoveColumnsintheInstanceView 48

CreateorDeleteCustomColumnsintheInstanceView 48

ViewInstanceDetails 48

Reactivate,Deactivate,orDeleteanACEInstance 49

PoliciesTab 49

ChangeaCopyProtectionID 49

ResettheAuthenticationPassword 50

AddInformationforCustomColumns 50

7TroubleshootingandMaintenance 51

TroubleshootingConfigurationProblems 51

ConnectionProblemsBetweenaLinuxACEInstanceandACEManagementServer 51

ChangethePortAssignmentforACEManagementServer 51

DeletetheServerConfigurationFileandSetaNewAdministratorPassword 52

RestoreaBackupCopyofanSSLCertificate 52

ConfiguringMultipleACEManagementServerInstancestoUseSSL 53

DatabaseBackup 53

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Contents

Appendix:DatabaseSchemaandAuditEventLogData 55

UsingDatabaseReportingTools 55

DatabaseSchema 55

QueryingtheAuditEventLogData 59

Glossary 63

Index 65

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Thismanual,theVMwareACEManagementServerAdministrator’sManual,providesinformationabout

installingandusingtheVMware®ACEManagementServer,whichenablesyoutomanageACEinstancesin

realtime.UsingACEManagementServerisoptional,butdoingsoprovidesthefollowingbenefits:

ManageactivationofACEpackages.

Manageauthenticationofthoseactivatedpackages.

DynamicallydeliverpolicyupdatestomanagedACEinstances.

DynamicallydeliverinstancecustomizationdataformanagedACEinstanceswithWindowsguest

operatingsystems.

Intended Audience

Thisbookisintendedforanyonewhoneedstoinstall,upgrade,oruseACEManagementServertomanage

ACEinstances.ACEManagementServerisintendedforACEadministratorswhomustmaintainandupdate

ACEpoliciesusedonvirtualmachinesdeployedthroughoutanenterprise.

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TheVMwareACEManagementServerenablesyoutomanageVMwareACEinstances,todynamically

publishpolicychangesforthoseinstances,andtotestanddeploypackagesmoreeasily.

Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:

“FeaturesofACEManagementServer”onpage 9

“SystemRequirements”onpage 10

Features of ACE Management Server

ACEManagementServeroffersscalabilityandreliability:

Youcanincreasecapacitybyaddingnetworkresourcessuchasloadbalancersandextraserverhardware.

Fortestingenvironments,thedefaultembeddedbackingstoreprovidesasimpleandefficientdatabase

solution.ToscaleACEManagementServerforproductiondeployments,youcanconfigureandusean

externalrelationaldatabasemanagementsystem(RDBMS).

InWindows,multithreadedprocesseshandleserverrequests.InLinux,multipleprocesseshandleserver

requests.Ifoneprocessfails,anothertakesover.

ACEManagementServeroffersActiveDirectoryintegration:

YoucanuseActiveDirectorytoauthenticateusersofACEinstances.

YoudonotneedaschemachangeforyourexistingActiveDirectory.

LDAPisusedtoaccessActiveDirectory.

InformationaboutWindowsdomainuseraccountstatesisprovidedinclearandusefulmessages.

Reasonsforloginfailuresarepresentedas“lockedout”or“passwordexpired.”

ACEManagementServeractsasanActiveDirectorypasswordchangeproxy.

YoucanusetheinstancecustomizationfeatureinACEwithyourownestablishednamingconventionsto

associateuserswithmachines.

Securityfeaturesincludethefollowing:

EncryptedcommunicationsbetweenserverandclientstraveloverHTTPStraffic.

Passwordsarestoredsecurelyinhashedforminthebackingstore.

FlexibledatabaseoptionsallowuseofanembeddeddatabaseorexternalRDBMStostoreACEinstance

dataandpolicies.

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ACEManagementServeriseasytoinstallandconfigure.Clienttrafficcanbeproxiedbyeasilyavailable

products.Theserveruseseasilyavailablesoftwarecomponents:

ApacheWebserver2.0

ThedefaultSQLitedatabasestore

Theserversetupusesindustry‐standardprotocols:

HTTPSandLDAP

XML‐RPCformessageencapsulation

ACEManagementServeroffersextensibilityandavailability:

YoucancreateandusemorethanoneACEManagementServer.Whenyouusemorethanoneserver,you

cansettheserversupsothattheysharethesamedatabaseforloadbalancingorincreasedfaulttolerance.

AWindowsACEManagementServercanbeonthesamesystemasWorkstation.

YoucandesignateasingleACEManagementServername,suchas

https://ace.policyserver.company.com,anduseDNSlookuptotranslatethehostnametoan

address.TheaddressiscachedifaDNSserverisnotavailable.Additionally,youcanusedifferentACE

ManagementServerinstancesifuserstravelbetweenofficesindifferentgeographiclocations.

System Requirements

ThefollowingsectionsdescribetheACEManagementServersystemrequirements.

Required Hardware

Aminimumofan800MHz‐compatiblex86andx86‐64architectureprocessor

Compatibleprocessorsinclude:

Celeron,PentiumII,PentiumIII,Pentium4,PentiumM(includingcomputerswithCentrinomobile

technology),Xeon(includingPrestonia),AMD,Athlon,Athlon MP,AthlonXP,Duron,Opteron,AMD64

Opteron,andAthlon64

ExperimentalsupportforIntelIA‐32eCPU

40MBoffreespaceisrequiredforbasicinstallation.VMwarerecommendsatleast10GBoffreediskspace.

An8‐bitdisplayadapterisrequired.

Forlocalareanetworking,anyEthernetcontrollerthattheoperatingsystemsupportsissufficient.

Supported Operating Systems

FollowingarethesupportedoperatingsystemsforACEManagementServer:

WindowsServer2003WebEditionSP1andSP2,WindowsServer2003StandardEditionSP1andSP2,

WindowsServer2003EnterpriseEditionSP1andSP2(includes64‐bitandR2editions)

WindowsXPProfessional(includes64‐biteditions)

Windows2000ServerServicePack4andWindows2000AdvancedServerServicePack 4

RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAdvancedServer4.0withUpdate 4.

SUSELinuxEnterpriseServer9ServicePack3

NOTEYourservernamemustbeeitherthemachinenameinEnglishortheIP address.International

charactersarenotsupported.

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