You can test the connection of VMware Cloud Director to a remote server, and establish a trust relationship with it.

You can test and secure the connection of VMware Cloud Director to a remote server by entering the server URL.

When you test a remote connection to a server, if the connection involves SSL communication and VMware Cloud Director hasn't already established a trust relationship with the server, you are prompted to review a certificate, or a chain of certificates, and to make a trust choice.

If the certificate chain is not complete and there are additional certificates available, you can choose to retrieve them to view more details before making a trust choice.

Prerequisites

Verify that your role includes the SSL: Test Connection and the Truststore: Manage rights.

Procedure

  1. From the top navigation bar, select Administration.
  2. In the left panel, under Certificate Management, select Trusted Certificates and click Test Remote Connection.
  3. Enter an URL for the server with which you want to test the connection.
  4. From the drop-down menu, select the hostname verification algorithm to use when testing the connection.
  5. Click Connect.
  6. If the connection involves SSL communication and VMware Cloud Director hasn't already established a trust relationship with the server, review the certificate information and make a trust choice.
    Option Description
    Trust Verify that you trust the certificate information and establish a trust relationship for future communication with the server.
    Retrieve If the certificate chain is not complete and there are additional intermediate and leaf certificates available from the same issuing certificate authority, you can retrieve them to view more details. Depending on your security considerations, choose one of the options.
    • Select which certificates to trust and click Trust selected
    • To cancel the attempt to establish a trust relationship, click Cancel
    Cancel Cancel the attempt to establish a trust relationship.