{"id":119,"date":"2009-03-04T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/vcenter-25-update-4-path-update-script-for-performance-overview-plugin.html"},"modified":"2009-03-04T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:01:00","slug":"vcenter-25-update-4-path-update-script-for-performance-overview-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vcenter-25-update-4-path-update-script-for-performance-overview-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"vCenter 2.5 Update 4 &#8211; Path Update Script (for Performance Overview Plugin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updating paths in Windows isn&#8217;t really a difficult task, but it is a pain to have to keep track of settings, etc.<\/p>\n<p>According to this KB article from VMware (<a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1008296\">http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1008296<\/a>), to get the Performance Overview plugin to work, there are a couple things to do.<\/p>\n<p>1.  Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/cds.sun.com\/is-bin\/INTERSHOP.enfinity\/WFS\/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site\/en_US\/-\/USD\/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=jdk-6u11-oth-JPR@CDS-CDS_Developer\">Java SE Development Kit 6u11<\/a><br \/>\n2.  Update some System environment variables<br \/>\n3.  Run the install.bat from the vCenter 2.5 Update 4 media<\/p>\n<p>Well, 1 and 3 are pretty easy to remember, but I don&#8217;t want to have to remember the path&#8217;s etc.  So I wrote a little .vbs that will do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>You can either run it from a command line, or double click on it to set your paths.<\/p>\n<p>It will:<br \/>\n1.  Look for the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables<br \/>\n2.  Make sure they are set properly<br \/>\n3.  It will correct them if they are wrong<br \/>\n4.  It will do nothing if they are properly set.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember to log off, and back on for the settings to take.<\/p>\n<p>The .vbs can be found here: <span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/scripts\/vc25u4javapath.txt\">http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/scripts\/vc25u4javapath.txt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating paths in Windows isn&#8217;t really a difficult task, but it is a pain to have to keep track of settings, etc. According to this &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}