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Powerful, flexible, intuitive and most importantly simple. That is what a real automation solution should be. No matter how complicated the task is, we'd like to turn it into a single click. Is that possible? Not without webcommander :)
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Console window #120

Closed mikemast01 closed 8 years ago

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

I can open a console window fine from the web interface for virtual center. When i try thu commander it opens a new windows , but the console never loads, I do get any errors either. any ideas?

Mike

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

Could there be an issue with permissions? The server running webcommander is on a different domain than VC... when I log into web commander, it is a different user than what is used in the script to connect to VC, and that user has no rights to webcommander server or files? Just a thought.

9whirls commented 8 years ago

VMRC plugin (installed together with PowerCLI 5.5+) must be installed on the machine where you want to open VM console. Please try the following command and see if it works on your machine. (get vm)[0] | Open-VMConsoleWindow

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

yes it is.. I can open VC webinterface in another tab and open the console so the plugin is installed and working.. but when I try to open the console from web commander tab, it opens a new tab with what looks like the vmware web console template, just like when I do it from VC... but the console screen never loads. Just a blank screen. image

9whirls commented 8 years ago

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9whirls commented 8 years ago

When you run the powershell command, what browser gets launched? Can it load vm console? connect-viserver your_esx (get vm)[0] | Open-VMConsoleWindow

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

Im looking now.. running from my laptop.. webcommander is installed on a server in my datacenter. looks like I can open a console from VC webinterface fine, but that plugin is not installed as you show above... I am working on getting powershell and the plugin on my laptop now, and will let you know.

Thanks so much. I get better support on this than I do when I call for phone support on production issues... :-)

Mike

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

looks to be same issue., it tries to open a file local to my laptop and still same... as screen shot I sent above.

file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/VMware/Infrastructure/vSphere%20PowerCLI/VMConsoleWindow/VMConsoleWindow.html?host=mtnlabvc&vmid=vm-950&vmName=ESSTLL020-w001&ticket=cst-VCT-527b9022-f416-ee92-79bd-0ca407ccaa98--tp-C9-14-A6-53-49-53-AE-89-19-20-78-52-48-12-79-EF-C2-23-68-C0&tunnelConnection=0

I do show the plug-in installed.

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

capture

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

I'm using IE... maybe I should try Firefox

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

Yep.. works in firefox... not in IE.

mikemast01 commented 8 years ago

Thanks again for helping / pointing me in the right direction. I am getting closer to using this for a internal web interface to preform routine tasks for users without giving them VC access, or explaining how to do stuff in VC.. they just run the script for it.

9whirls commented 8 years ago

Glad to know you got the issue solved. Please keep questions and feature requests coming. It's my pleasure to help.