Bug 1513592 - [RFE] Remove the 'VMware MKS plugin' option from 5.7.x
Summary: [RFE] Remove the 'VMware MKS plugin' option from 5.7.x
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine
Classification: Red Hat
Component: UI - OPS
Version: 5.7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: GA
: 5.7.5
Assignee: Harpreet Kataria
QA Contact: Kedar Kulkarni
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-15 16:22 UTC by Kedar Kulkarni
Modified: 2019-02-14 12:17 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Known Issue
Doc Text:
NPAPI support has been removed from all major browsers and VMware no longer supports this console type. As a result, the `VMware MKS plugin` option has been disabled in CloudForms.
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Last Closed: 2019-02-14 12:17:18 UTC
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Cloudforms Team: CFME Core
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Description Kedar Kulkarni 2017-11-15 16:22:18 UTC
Description of problem:
VMware MKS plugin: browsers no longer support the required NPAPI plugin
so Remove support for MKS Console from CFME.

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Comment 2 Kedar Kulkarni 2017-11-15 16:23:33 UTC
Severity is set to High cause it is causing confusion with customers, they assume MKS and WebMKS are same and expect the MKS to work, while it is not actually going to work.

Comment 18 CFME Bot 2018-04-25 18:40:33 UTC
New commit detected on ManageIQ/manageiq-schema/master:

https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-schema/commit/c7f75ab67f8e5f40b780525a178aa4ac2e08973a
commit c7f75ab67f8e5f40b780525a178aa4ac2e08973a
Author:     Dávid Halász <dhalasz>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb  6 09:41:10 2018 -0500
Commit:     Dávid Halász <dhalasz>
CommitDate: Tue Feb  6 09:41:10 2018 -0500

    Remove all VMware MKS console-related records from SettingSchanges

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513592

 db/migrate/20180130165200_drop_webmks.rb | 10 +
 spec/migrations/20180130165200_drop_webmks_spec.rb | 17 +
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)


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