Granting access to vRealize Automation 8 is a completely different process to vRealize Automation 7.x. This is partly due to the required use of an external VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) component and being based on the completely different code base from vRealize Automation Cloud (i.e. the SaaS offering). Note: product names are likely to change … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8 – Users and Groups
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Cloud Assembly – Using the API via vRO (Part 1)
Part 2 One of the things that you need to become familiar with as you use the Cloud Automation Services more and more is the Cloud Assembly API (and the CSP API). The API is required for some of the more advanced use cases leveraging extensibility that you might want to implement. A typical extensibility … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Using the API via vRO (Part 1)
vRealize Automation – External Identity Management
This article came out of a need to test authentication options other than the embedded identity manager that comes within vRA 7.x. The premise was that embedded vIDM did not offer enough control for customising domain controller selection when using Integrated Windows Authentication (we'll save this for another article, suffice to say we needed to … Continue reading vRealize Automation – External Identity Management
vRealize Automation – Forest Trusts
This article is going to cover an issue I came across when testing out an authentication scenario with vRA 7.5 for one of my customers. The scenario was as follows. My customer currently uses a single forest and single domain where vRA currently resides and leverages Active Directory IWA authentication using the embedded vIDM. Before … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Forest Trusts
vRealize Automation – Recovering an Access Policy
This article comes from a situation I managed to get my lab environment into when I was not paying proper attention to the configuration changes I was making (doing several things at once never works out well!). I was testing out Kerberos authentication in vRA 7.5 and managed to lock ALL users out of authenticating … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Recovering an Access Policy
Log Insight – Authentication Case Sensitivity
This is an interesting problem I encountered last week with an environment configured with native AD authentication within Log Insight. The version was 4.6.1 but the same behaviour can be found in version 4.7. Adding domain users to Log Insight directly via the native authentication enabled the domain user to log into Log Insight without … Continue reading Log Insight – Authentication Case Sensitivity
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