VMware vMA - UK setup

VMware's vMA is an execllet tool for managing ESXi environments and comes as a pre-built Virtual machine (Appliance).

My method of setting it up for the UK, thus my cronjobs run in GMT/BST.

Setup Authentification to vCenter/ESX hosts 
sudo vifp addserver <192.168.10.90>
vifp listservers
vifpinit
Test it works
vicfg-nics -l --vihost

Update vMA 
$ sudo vi /etc/vmware/esxupdate/vimaupdate.conf
 proxy = http://
 proxyport = 
$ sudo vima-update scan
$ sudo vima-update update

Setup SSH Keys 
$ mkdir ~/.ssh
$ vi ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Set Time and local 
$ sudo mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.org
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
$ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
  KEYTABLE="uk"
$ sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.1st
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-164.el5)
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root quiet notsc divider=10
      initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img 
$ sudo vi /etc/ntp.conf
comment out lines
#server 127.127.1.0 
#fudge  127.127.1.0 stratum 10
add lines
server <1st NTPSERVER FQDN/IP>
server <2nd NTPSERVER FQDN/IP>
 
$ sudo vi /etc/ntp/step-tickers
<1st NTPSERVER FQDN/IP>
<2nd NTPSERVER FQDN/IP>

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