Add a vCenter Server System as a vMA target for Active Directory Authentication

Use the following procedure to add a vCenter Server system as a vMA target for Active Directory authentication.

To add a vCenter Server system as a vMA target for Active Directory Authentication.

Procedure

1	Log in to vMA as vi-admin.
2	To add a server as a vMA target, run the following command: vifp addserver vc1.mycomp.com --authpolicy adauth --username ADDOMAIN\\user1 Here, --authpolicy adauth indicates that the target needs to use the Active Directory authentication. If you run this command without the --username option, vMA prompts for the username that can connect to the vCenter Server system. You can specify this user name as shown in the following example: `Enter username for machinename.example.com:` `ADDOMAIN\user1` If --authpolicy is not specified in the command, then fpauth is taken as the default authentication policy.
3	Verify that the target server has been added. The display shows all target servers and the authentication policy used for each target. vifp listservers --long server1.mycomp.com ESX adauth server2.mycomp.com ESX fpauth server3.mycomp.com ESXi adauth vc1.mycomp.com vCenter adauth
4	Verify that you can run a vSphere CLI command without authentication by running a command on one of the ESXi hosts, for example: `esxcli --server VC_server --vihost esx_host network nic list` The command runs without prompting for authentication information. If the name of a target server changes, you must remove the target server by running vifpremoveserver with the old name, and then add the server using vifp addserver with the new name.