Change Participation Preference to CEIP (GUI Method)

Procedure

1. Power on your VLA appliance, if it is not already ON
2. Create a user that you subsequently use to authenticate to the VLA appliance's web interface, the VLA server dashboard.
   1. Execute steps 1, 2, 3 and 4 from section Create VLA Service User and Password
3. Login to the VLA server dashboard
   1. Open a new browser window or tab
   2. Type the URL of the VLA server dashboard on the Tomcat instance:

      https://<vla_hostname or IP>:8443/vla/dashboard ,
      using either the FQDN vla_hostname or the IPv4 address of the VLA

   3. Accept the certificate warning, if prompted
   4. Type in your VLA service username and password that you set in step 2 in this section. The browser displays a page similar to the following:

      Figure 1. VLA server dashboard

      
      
      

      

      
      
      

      The CEIP section on the VLA server dashboard (highlighted for reference in the preceding figure) depicts the current status of the participation preference of this user to CEIP as Joined

4. Execute the following steps to change the participation preference to CEIP of this product:
   1. Click on Change (highlighted with arrow for reference in the preceding figure) to change the participation preference

      The browser opens a window similar to the following where you can either Check or Uncheck your participation to either Join or Leave CEIP, respectively.

      Figure 2. Select CEIP participation preference

      
      
      

      

      
      
      

   2. Click on the Check box against Join the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program to Leave the CEIP of this product.

      For example, your CEIP Joined status currently showed as Yes as per step 3 in this section. You should see the Check box as Checked in the preceding figure, initially. You can then change your participation preference in order to Leave the CEIP by Unchecking the Check box (highlighted with arrow in the preceding figure).

   3. Click on Apply to confirm the change

      The VLA server dashboard now depicts the CEIP Joined status as No (highlighted for reference) as shown in the following figure:

      Figure 3. CEIP Participation Preference Changes

      
      
      

      

      
      
      

      This means that you have chosen to Leave the CEIP for this product, as of now.

Results

You have viewed your current CEIP participation preference on the VLA server dashboard and understand the steps to execute to change it.