Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Configuring the VMware Adapter

Configuring the VMware Tools Service

Navigate to the following folder where the CWA VMware adapter is installed and create a new directory named 

:

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Create a text file named service.props if it doesn’t already exist. 

Open the service.props text file and add the following line:

Keystore=c:\\VMware-Certs\\vmware.keystore

(Note the use of escaped backslashes for Windows directories).

See 

 for information about general and adapter-specific properties that can be set to 

control things like logging and connection properties.

Configuring the VMware Tools Service

This section provides instructions for configuring the VMware Tools service to wait for required application services 
before a virtual machine power on job completes. You must configure the service to depend on other required application 
services, ensuring that the required application services are available when the power on part of the CWA completes.

To configure the VMware Tools Service, you must first determine which system components are needed by downstream 
jobs and then add or modify the 

 key to support these services.

Viewing VMware Tools Service Properties

On the machine where VMware is installed, click 

.

On the 

 dialog, scroll to the 

, right-click and select 

.

Click the 

 tab to view the system components on which the service depends.

Click 

 to close the dialog.