Use this advanced feature when you want to target specific NoAD configuration to users based on Windows security group membership.

DEM agent uses the configuration settings from the  …\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

  1. Create one or more configuration files in the …\General\FlexRepository\NoAD folder and save with the same format as NoAD.xml.
  2. Open the standard NoAD configuration file and set the value for MultipleConfig as 1. The DEM agent processes the other *.xml files in the …\General\FlexRepository\NoAD folder and reads them one by one in alphabetical order.
  3. 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 in NoAD.xml.