View a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration

You can use View Administrator or the lmvutil command to view information about global entitlements, pods, and sites. You can use only the lmvutil command to view information about home sites.

About this task

This procedure shows how to use View Administrator to view information about global entitlements, pods, and sites. To use the lmvutil command to view this information, see lmvutil Command Reference.

Prerequisites

Become familiar with the lmvutil command authentication options and requirements and verify that you have sufficient privileges to run the lmvutil command. See lmvutil Command Authentication.

Procedure

• To list all of the global entitlements in your configuration, in View Administrator, select Catalog > Global Entitlements.

  You can use the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod federation.

• To list the desktop or application pools in a global entitlement, in View Administrator, select Catalog > Global Entitlements, double-click the global entitlement name, and click the Local Pools tab.

  Only the pools in the local pod appear on the Local Pools tab. If a global entitlement includes desktop or application pools in a remote pod, you must log in to the View Administrator user interface for a View Connection Server instance in the remote pod to see those pools.

• To list the users or groups associated with a global entitlement, in View Administrator, select Catalog > Global Entitlements, double-click the global entitlement, and click the Users and Groups tab.

  You can use the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod federation.

• To list the pods in the pod federation, in View Administrator, select View Configuration > Cloud Pod Architecture.

  You can use the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod federation.

• To list the sites in the pod federation, in View Administrator, select View Configuration > Sites.

  You can use the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod federation.

• To list the home sites for a user, run the lmvutil command with the --showUserHomeSites option.

  lmvutil --showUserHomeSites --userName domain\username [--entitlementName name]

  Option	Description
  --userName	Name of the user for whom to list home sites. Use the format domain\username.
  --entitlementName	(Optional) Name of a global entitlement. Use this option to list the home sites for a user and global entitlement combination.

  For example:

  lmvutil --authAs adminEast --authDomain domainEast --authPassword "*" --showUserHomeSites --userName example\adminEast

• To list the home sites for a group, run the lmvutil command with the --showGroupHomeSites option.

  lmvutil --showGroupHomeSites --groupName domain\groupname [--entitlementName name]

  Option	Description
  --groupName	Name of the group for which to list home sites. Use the format domain\groupname.
  --entitlementName	(Optional) Name of a global entitlement. Use this option to list the home sites for a group and global entitlement combination.

  For example:

  lmvutil --authAs adminEast --authDomain domainEast --authPassword "*" --showGroupHomeSites --groupName example\adminEastGroup