Use this advanced feature when you want to target specific NoAD configuration to users based on Windows security group membership.
…\General\FlexRepository\NoAD\NoAD.xml
file. Starting with
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2206, administrators can configure the DEM agent using NoAD settings from multiple configuration files and target these files to users based on Windows security group membership. All the settings from
NoAD.xml
are first applied to all the users. If the multiple configuration feature is enabled, other configuration files are processed subsequently.
Procedure
- Create one or more configuration files in the
…\General\FlexRepository\NoAD
folder and save with the same format asNoAD.xml
. - Open the standard NoAD configuration file and set the value for
MultipleConfig
as1
. The DEM agent processes the other*.xml
files in the…\General\FlexRepository\NoAD
folder and reads them one by one in alphabetical order. - Ensure that each additional configuration file(s) you created contains an
IfMemberOf
attribute (case-sensitive name), and set to a comma-separated list of group names. If the user is a member of any of those groups, the configuration file is processed as a NoAD configuration file for that user.
Example
As an example, assume that you have the standard NoAD.xml
file containing ... <setting type='noAD' MultipleConfig="1" BackupCount="3" ...
with other DEM agent configuration settings.
There are two more configuration files:
HR.xml
containing... <setting type='noAD' IfMemberOf='Human Resources' BackupCount="5" ...
Remote.xml
containing... <setting type='noAD' IfMemberOf='Remote Employees' BackupCount="1" ...
When a user logs on, the settings from
NoAD.xml
are processed first. As
MultipleConfig
is enabled, the other two files are processed in an alphabetical order.
- If an HR employee logs on, the number of backups is set to
5
. - If a Remote employee logs on, the number of backups is set to
1
. - If the user logging on is a member of both the Human Resources group and the Remote Employees group, the number of backups is set to
1
, because the settings overwrite. - If the user logging on is not a member of either of these two groups, the number of backups remains at
3
, as configured inNoAD.xml
.