You can add vCenter servers to vMA with AD authentication. This is considered to be more secure than the default fastpass authentication, which maintains a local cache of the credentials.
Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication
How to do it...
The following procedure explains how to add the vCenter server to the vMA by using AD authentication:
- Log in to the vMA console or SSH as vi-admin. Now, issue the following command:
vifp addserver <vCenter> --authpolicy adauth --username <domain>\\<domain admin>
or
vifp addserver <vCenter> --authpolicy adauth --username <domainuser>@<domain>
Examples:
vifp addserver vc1.vcloud.local --authpolicy adauth --username administrator@vcloud.local
- Issue...
