This section discusses the steps you must take to deploy the VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management system without using the vla_adapter command. It consists of a series of shell commands that you run on the LaMa system from a shell, that provides analogous behavior to the LaMa system. You typically only use this method if the LaMa system does not allow SSH access from the VLA appliance (because this alternative method is longer, manually driven, and thus more error-prone).

Follow these steps to deploy the VLA Adapter manually:

  1. Copy the adapter and deploy script from the VLA to the LaMa system:

    1. Start a shell session on the LaMa system as root.

    2. Copy the deploy script to the /tmp directory via scp: 

      scp <vla_user>@<vla FQDN>:/opt/vmware/vla/lvm/vlvma_manage/arch/deploy /tmp

      where <vla_user> is the name of the VLA user that was added at VLA deploy execution and <vla FQDN> is the fully-qualified domain name of the VLA.

    3. Copy the adapter to the /tmp directory via scp: 

      scp <vla_user>@<vla FQDN>:/opt/vmware/vla/lvm/vlvma_manage/arch/VMwareLVM.ear /tmp

      where <vla_user> is the name of the VLA user that was added at VLA deploy execution and <vla FQDN> is the fully-qualified domain name of the VLA.

  2. Install the adapter using the deploy script.

    1. Log into the LaMa VM.

    2. Change directory to /tmp.

    3. Type deploy. The script will prompt you for the following items:

      1. LaMa IP Address — Usually should be set to 127.0.0.1

      2. LaMa Port Address — for instance 00, the port should be 50008

      3. LaMa User ID — a LaMa user with administrative rights

      4. LaMa User Password — password of the LaMa user.

      5. Adapter EAR file Absolute Path — the absolute path to the VMwareLVM.ear file.

      6. LaMa Instance directory — the directory that has the LaMa instance, usually /usr/sap. If you are unsure, the deploy script will search for it if you leave this parameter blank.