Finding and removing unused replica virtual machines in the VMware Horizon

Question

Hello All,
I found this tutorial : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009844#determining
and I was trying this command : SviConfig.exe -operation=FindUnusedReplica -DsnName=ComposerDB -Username=sa -Password=secret -Move=true
but I dont know right password of DSN, how can I get ? or is it another tutorial how to remove unused replica virtual machine ?

Answer 1

Hi,
So what you are trying to do is drill into the Composer Database and find un-used replicas? Do you not know the DSN credentials when you set up the ODBC connection? Was it not documented?
If not, then I do not know if there is a way to crowbar that password information out. Do you have access to the SQL database via Management studio? There are possibly a few options:
1)  You could create a NEW user who has permissions on the composer DB and create a NEW ODBC DSN and use this user and password to access the database from the same server using the sviconfig. You are just providing another way of access the same database really without interupting the existing composer connection.
2) You could try resetting the password on the account (and update the ODBC connection on the composer server) - I'd stop the composer service first and then edit ODBC and then resume composer and check everything works!
3) Try and find the information of your account (who set it up?) as this would be the best way moving forward.
My preferred options would be to try 3, 1  and finally 2. I'd always recommend testing things like this in a development environment first so you can really understand the impact/consequence to what you are doing.
Happy to help!