VMWare Horizon (SAML)

Created by Chris Canfield, Modified on Wed, 24 Jul at 10:41 AM by Chris Canfield

Overview 

The purpose of this guide is to navigate the process for integrating VMWare with TraitWare.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Login to the Admin console at admin.traitware.com.  

Click Signing Keys and generate a new key pair.

Enter the Key information and click Generate Key.


Click Applications.

Click Add application.  

Select SAML 2.0 and select Use a Template.


Type VMWare in the search box.  Click on the VMWare application.


Enter the VMWare Unified Access Gateway Appliance URL and click submit.

Click Applications.  Click on Add/Remove Users on VMWare application.

Click Manage Users.


Click the slide button next to the users to delegate access to VMWare.


Click Applications and then click on the newly-created VMWare Application.

Click Configuration and expand the SAML Configuration row. Edit Signing Key, select the signing key from step 2, and click save.


Click on the Provider Credentials tab, and click to download the IdP Metadata and save.

VMWare Horizon Configuration


Click Upload Identity Provider Metadata.

Enter the Entity ID, click select IDP Metadata


Click save.

Click on Horizon Settings 

Click on more.

Select Auth Methods and select SAML.

Select the previously configured Identity Provider.

Login to the VMWare Horizon Connection Server.

Click on Servers.


Select the server and click edit.

Click Authentication.

Select Allowed under the Delegation of authentication field.  Click Manage SAML Authenticators.

Click add.

Enter the label name and description.  Navigate to the location of the previously-used XML file.


Open the XML file with a text editor.  

Select all of the text, copy text.

Paste the copied text into the XML Metadata field.  Ensure that the Enabled for Connection Server box is checked and press OK.


Press OK to return to the Server menu.



Confirming functionality

Sign into the VMWare UAC.  Click VMWare Horizon HTML Access.

The page should redirect to api.traitware.com and a QR code will be visible.

Open the TraitWare app.  Select the account. Scan the QR code. The page will redirect to the VM Inventory.



Success!  You have successfully logged into VMWare Horizon using Passwordless Multi-Factor Authentication.

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