After the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance is deployed, register the new appliance with the on-premises vCenter Server.

Prerequisites

  • You have deployed the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance.
  • The Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance VM is powered-on.
  • Appliance has HTTPS (443) connectivity to communicate with the vCenter Server.
  • The SSO server time and the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance time are in sync. See Configure NTP Server Settings.
    Important: Time must be synchronized between the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance and the vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) server. NTP server must be specified so that the SSO server time and the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance time are in sync.

Procedure

  1. From your browser, log in to the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance at https://<appliance IP address> using admin credentials.
  2. Go to the Appliance > Registration page.
  3. In the SSO lookup configuration section, click Edit. Configure the following values:
    SSO lookup configuration Description
    SSO Hostname Enter the IP address or FQDN of the vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) and click Register.
    Note: Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance uses a service account to interact with vCenter. This service account is created in your SSO server for improved security and manageability. You must have SSO administrator credentials to create this service account. The SSO administrator credentials are only used for this session and do not persist in the Carbon Black Cloud.
    Username and Password Enter the username and password for the vCenter SSO administrator. To add a member to the vCenter SSO administrator group, see vSphere Documentation.
    VMware Cloud on AWS By default, the toggle is OFF. Do not change the setting.
    Thumbprint (SHA1) Verify the SHA1 thumbprint of the SSO server.
  4. In the vCenter Server Details section, click Register and configure the following values:
    vCenter Server details Description
    vCenter Server hostname Select the required vCenter Server host name from the list. You can install one Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance per vCenter Server.
    Plug-in The version of the registered Carbon Black Cloud Workload Plug-in is available after the registration is complete.
    Thumbprint (SHA256) Verify the SHA256 thumbprint of the vCenter Server.
  5. Click Register.
  6. To reflect the changes, log out of the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance and log in to the vCenter Serverusing the same Administrator role that you used to register the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance.
    Alternatively, refresh the vSphere Client browser.

Results

The appliance registers successfully with the vCenter Server.

You can view the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Plug-in in the vCenter Server. The Carbon Black The Carbon Black Cloud logo icon appears in the left navigation pane and in the Shortcuts menu of the vSphere Client.

What to do next

Go to the Carbon Black Cloud console and generate the API ID and secret key.