Certificate via ADFS for VCenter Login

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out regarding this matter.

Certificate-based authentication through ADFS should work in Remote Desktop Manager if you open your vCenter URL in a Website entry. I have not been able to test this on my side, since we do not have this ADFS setup in our lab.

Could you please try the following?

Create a Website entry pointing to your vCenter URL.

In the entry properties, go to General > Settings and make sure Ignore certificate authentication is unchecked.

Open the entry. When ADFS requests a certificate, Remote Desktop Manager should ask you to select one from your personal certificate store.

Please let me know whether it works. If it does not, please send me your Remote Desktop Manager version and a screenshot of what you see at the ADFS step.

Best regards,

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out regarding this matter.

Certificate-based authentication through ADFS should work in Remote Desktop Manager if you open your vCenter URL in a Website entry. I have not been able to test this on my side, since we do not have this ADFS setup in our lab.

Could you please try the following?

Create a Website entry pointing to your vCenter URL.

In the entry properties, go to General > Settings and make sure Ignore certificate authentication is unchecked.

Open the entry. When ADFS requests a certificate, Remote Desktop Manager should ask you to select one from your personal certificate store.

Please let me know whether it works. If it does not, please send me your Remote Desktop Manager version and a screenshot of what you see at the ADFS step.

Best regards,

Hey @Jacob Lafrenière,

actually you are totally right. When creating a Webentry with jump settings it works flawlessly. But i talked about the various dashboards like the "native" VCenter Management Dashboard which is built in RDM.

But thank you anyway.

Best Regards

Moritz Heppert

Hello,

Thank you for the follow-up, and I am glad to hear that the Website entry works with your certificate.

Regarding the VMware dashboard, this entry connects directly to the vCenter API using a username and password. It does not go through the vCenter web sign-in page, so it cannot redirect to ADFS or request a certificate. Therefore, certificate-based authentication through ADFS is currently not supported for the VMware dashboard. Only username and password credentials can be used with it.

If this is something you would like to see added, I recommend posting a request in the Feature Request section of our forum for Remote Desktop Manager. This allows our product team to evaluate it and other users to show their interest.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,