You can add vCenter Servers to vMA with the standard/default fastpass authentication (fpauth). vMA's fastpass authentication method provides a mechanism to cache the target server's credentials, on the vMA machine, so that you don't have authenticate every time you run a command against the target server.
The following procedure explains how to add the vCenter Server to the vMA by using fastpass Authentication.
Log in to the vMA console or SSH to it as the
vi-admin
user.Issue the following command:
vifp addserver <vCenter> --authpolicy fpauth
Example:
vifp addserver vcenter5x.vdescribed.com --authpolicy fpauth
Issue the command
vifp listservers
to verify that the server has been added.