SCEP on Windows 2008R2 for iPhones / iPads
A project never really finishes, if you’re lucky you complete the initial requirements and get those signed off, and if you’re good at managing your project you’ll refuse to allow the scope creep in and mark any additional feature requests as “phase 2″ and evaluate them at a later date. One of the nice-to-haves with the deployment of iPhones was a VPN system so that you could access the internal systems when out of the office, and to date this has been in a very “test and dev” environment with access only for IT staff in a completely non-supported way.
However, I’ve found myself with a bit of time and so I started delving into the SCEP world for issuing certificates to iPhones which I would then later use to authenticate an SSL VPN connection, and here’s what I found. Continue Reading →
Quick: vCMA (vCenter Mobile Access Server)
If you’ve not seen it yet, VMware have have flung out a product called vCMA – it allows you to manage your VMware estate from a mobile device, and although only in first release and officially a “power toy”, it’s pretty neat.
What’s even more neater* is that you also use the free iPad application to connect and then administer remotely with a shiny interface (no, you can’t do it on the iPhone I’m afraid).
Anyway, the point of this was to note the default options, after downloading the OVF file and installing it,
- the default URL is https://ip-address/vim
- the management URL is https://ip-address:5480
- the management username/password by default is root/vmware
*yeah, why not?