Using Chrome to access vCenter WEB interface
Hi there,
I'm trying to make my RDM enterprise connect to a vcenter server web interface using Chrome but it requires flash, and for some reason Chrome inside RDM says it needs flash even though flash is built in in chrome. What can I do to work around this?
Also I would like to use the form fill for username and password on web interface of a vcenter server, I tryed to look at the source page but I believe it is all flash based so I could not find any code useful to use as reference for username and password.
could I have some assistance please?
All Comments (4)
Hi Mephisto,
The third party we use for the Chrome engine in RDM, unlike Google Chrome, requires additional plug-in to use Flash player. So you must install Flash player system plugin on your machine (You can find it here: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ ). Once the flash player plug-in is installed, the Chrome engine will be able to to automatically detect it and load it.
The form fill needs HTML elements to make it work, to fill the username and password in Flash Player it can, sometimes, be done with a macro but it doesn't always work.
Best regards,
Olivier Désalliers
Alright, thanks for your help, with the standalone flash player it worked.
The password part I'll try to analyse with a web developer and see what we can do to find the right fields.
Thanks!
Olivier,
Installing Flash by running the downloaded executable, with Chrome closed, worked. It should be noted that you have to restart RDM as well.
As for logging in to the both the vCloud Air Web Console and vCloud Director, you need to use two different Browser URLs, but the Login page works the same. I figured out the following settings:
vCloud Air
Display: Embedded
General
Browser URL: https://us-california-1-3.vchs.vmware.com/compute/ui/
?orgName=aba......-....-....-....-............
&serviceInstanceId=a123bc45-d6ef-...-....-.........f89
&InstanceId=a123bc45-d6ef-...-....-.........f89
Web browser app: Google Chrome
Login:
Username: {VCA_Username}
Password: {VCA_Password}
Auto fill login: checked
Auto submit: not checked
Form ID: loginForm
Username ID: username
Password ID: password
Login button ID: loginButton
Custom script: loginButton.disabled=false;
username="same as above"
password="same as above"
loginButton.click();
vCloud Director
Display: Embedded
General
Broswer URL: https://iam.vchs.vmware.com/login/authenticate
?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fus-california-1-.vchs.vmware.com%2Fcompute%2Fcloud%2F
org%2Faba......-....-....-....-............
&SigAlg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F09%2Fxmldsig%23rsa-sha1
&Signature=....#/orgUserHome?
Login:
Same as above
I had this same issue and following this resolved it for me (I downloaded in Chrome as IE detects it's not needed). :)