Bug 1345812 - VMRC is not working on CFME 4.1 beta
Summary: VMRC is not working on CFME 4.1 beta
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine
Classification: Red Hat
Component: UI - OPS
Version: 5.6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: GA
: 5.8.0
Assignee: Dávid Halász
QA Contact: Kedar Kulkarni
URL:
Whiteboard: vmrc
Depends On:
Blocks: 1347700 1393521
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-13 08:56 UTC by Chen
Modified: 2020-08-13 08:30 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.8.0.0
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Clone Of:
: 1347700 1393521 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-06-12 17:28:46 UTC
Category: ---
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Description Chen 2016-06-13 08:56:49 UTC
Description of problem:

VMRC is not working on CFME 4.1 beta

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Windows Server 2012 R2(Ver 6.3 / Build 9600)
InternetExplorer 11(Ver 11.0.9600.18283 / Ver 11.0.30)
VMRC(Ver 8.0.0 / Build 3250412)

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the VM's VMRC
2. The screen shows black with error ""Remote Console plugin is not properly installed.""

Actual results:

We can not open VMRC via CFME

Expected results:

We should be able to open VMRC

Additional info:

The customer is able to open the VMRC via the web client.

Comment 2 Harpreet Kataria 2016-06-13 13:36:21 UTC
Martin,

Can you look into this one, please re-assign if someone else can fix it.

Thanks,
~Harpreet

Comment 4 Chen 2016-06-16 06:35:07 UTC
Hi Martin,

Your questions make sense to me however this is reported from my customer and I don't have a test environment to test.

One question for me is that we do support VMRC 8.0.0 am I right ? If so where can I get that so that I can try to build a test environment ?

Best Regards,
Chen

Comment 5 Martin Povolny 2016-06-16 09:27:48 UTC
Ok, Chen. I thought this was a QE report.

Let me contact QE guys regarding the testing environment and get back here when I have some more test results.

Comment 6 Martin Povolny 2016-06-16 09:33:04 UTC
Rananda, I understood that 5.6 was tested with various versions of IE and windows.

Can you, please, create a testing environment with these paremeters (unless you have such):

Windows Server 2012 R2(Ver 6.3 / Build 9600)
InternetExplorer 11(Ver 11.0.9600.18283 / Ver 11.0.30)
VMRC(Ver 8.0.0 / Build 3250412)

Also, can you, please, provide instructions for Chen to reproduce if needed?

Comment 7 Martin Povolny 2016-06-16 09:34:53 UTC
Ofc the parameters don't have to match 100% let's just try to get close to that. Thx!

Comment 8 Ramesh A 2016-06-16 18:25:33 UTC
Hi Martin / Chen,

Yes from QE prospective, we have tested VMRC with various combinations of IE as listed below in CFME 5.6.  But till now I have not seen this issue. How ever we donot have the QE environment as mentioned in this, I will try to get one up and running for QE testing to check if this is reproducible. Once I am done with the testing of it, I will update the status of it.

QE's test environment:
=======================
VMRC ClientIntegration Plugin - 5.5.0 & 6.0
VMRC Remote Console - 5.5.0 & 6.0
IE - 11, 10
Win7 vm

I have not seen any failures as such till now.  However, I try to setup the above mentioned environment or at least a close one and test it.


PS,
1. Chen, can you please check if it is only in this environment that is failing or is it failing in different environment as well??
2. If in case you want to download the latest plugin here are the links
8.0.1 - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VMRC801&productId=491
8.0.0 - https://download.iseage.org/vmware-plugin/


Thanks,
Ramesh

Comment 14 Chen 2016-06-22 01:09:39 UTC
Hi David,

Sorry I don't have a Web Client environment. But my customer said that they are able to open the VMRC console via the Web Client.

Here is the problem: we don't support the VMRC 8.0.0 in CloudForms is that right ? 

Best Regards,
Chen

Comment 15 Dávid Halász 2016-06-22 08:31:52 UTC
At this point we don't.

Comment 16 Chen 2016-06-22 09:10:23 UTC
Hi David,

>At this point we don't.

Thank you for your confirm.

Our docs is misleading the customer. It says "CFME has support for versions of VMRC for whatever VMware supports."

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1548913

Best Regards,
Chen

Comment 20 CFME Bot 2016-11-09 16:51:24 UTC
New commit detected on ManageIQ/manageiq/master:
https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/commit/39d6f4c8ecbd5cf36c6a0350fc2446dc789af1d9

commit 39d6f4c8ecbd5cf36c6a0350fc2446dc789af1d9
Author:     Dávid Halász <dhalasz>
AuthorDate: Tue Nov 8 18:26:42 2016 +0100
Commit:     Dávid Halász <dhalasz>
CommitDate: Tue Nov 8 23:32:21 2016 +0100

    Fall-"back" to VMRC desktop client if no NPAPI plugin is available
    
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1345812

 app/controllers/vm_common.rb               | 13 ++++++--
 app/views/vm_common/console_vmrc.html.haml | 48 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Comment 22 Kedar Kulkarni 2017-04-26 14:26:47 UTC
Environment: 
Win Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
IE11(Version:11.0.9600.18639) 
VMRC Plugin 9.0 

Result: 
I was able to launch VMRC Console from CFME Appliance and it connected and worked fine. 

Additional info: 
Tried with Compatibility mode on and off, both, and it worked fine. In compatibility and security mode (which are recommended settings by Windows), it shows you numerous pop-ups asking "Do you want to continue?", keep saying yes and it will get you the VMRC console eventually.


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