VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager Configuration Files and Variables

Some VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager configuration files and variables contain settings that can affect the security of your environment. Improper settings can also impact the proper functioning of your VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager environment.

VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager Configuration Files

The json configuration files contain information about the products, such as supported versions, checksums, and interoperability.

File Location	Description
/opt/vmware/cplcm/config/application.properties	Contains configuration properties for the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager REST API application
/opt/vmware/cplcm/config/interop/	Contains the product definitions for the supported products VMware Cloud Director, vCloud Usage Meter, vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App, and RabbitMQ.
/opt/vmware/cplcm/config/nginx.conf	Contains the configuration properties for the graphical user interface service.
/opt/vmware/cplcm/config/log4j2.xml	Definition of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager logging configuration
/opt/vmware/cplcm/config/vcplcm_instance.json	Contains the unique instance ID of the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager appliance and the configuration property for activation and deactivation of the telemetry.
/vcplcm_cli/config.json	Contains the current user configuration for the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager CLI. You can define and update the configuration by using the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager CLI config command.

VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager Configuration Variables

After deploying the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager appliance, in /etc/environment, you can define the following values as environmental variables.

Variable	Description
CPLCM_CONTENT_REPO	The path to the repository directory containing the product binaries. The default directory is /cplcmrepo.
EULA-ACCEPT	Defines if EULA is accepted or not.
CPLCM_SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR_ANSIBLE	The path to the directory containing the Ansible playbooks. The default location is /opt/vmware/cplcm/scripts/ansible/playbooks. If you update the location to the directory containing the Ansible playbooks, you must store all playbooks in the new directory.
CPLCM_SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR_PYTHON	The path to the directory containing the python scripts. The default location is /opt/vmware/cplcm/scripts/python/vcplcm/plugin. You must store all python scripts in this directory using the required python file structure. <product-name>/{deploy/discover/upgrade/validation}
CPLCM_INTEROP_PATH	The path to the directory containing the product definitions for the deployed products. The default location is /opt/vmware/cplcm/config/interop.
VCPLCM_USER_ALLOWED_RETRIES	The number of authentication attempts before the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Managerlocal user account is locked for a specified amount of time. The default number of attempts is five.
VCPLCM_USER_LOCK_TIME	In case of authentication failures, the time to keep a local user account locked. The default time is 15 minutes.
CPLCM_PYTHON_LOG_LEVEL	The log level used for logging events in python scripts. The default is DEBUG.
CPLCM_PORT	The TCP port on which the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager REST API listens. The default port is 9443.
CPLCM_CERT_DIR	The path to the directory containing the TLS certificate for the REST API. The default location is /opt/vmware/cplcm/security/certs.
CPLCM_KEYSTORE_PW	The keystore password for accessing a custom keystore for the TLS certificate for the REST API. Only necessary if a custom keystore is created.