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7 In the System Health section on the View Administrator dashboard, select Other components > SAML
2.0 Authenticators, select the SAML authenticator that you added, and verify the details.
If the configuration is successful, the authenticator's health is green. An authenticator's health can
display red if the certificate is untrusted, if VMware Identity Manager is unavailable, or if the metadata
URL is invalid. If the certificate is untrusted, you might be able to click Verify to validate and accept the
certificate.
What to do next
Extend the expiration period of the View Connection Server metadata so that remote sessions are not
terminated after only 24 hours. See “Change the Expiration Period for Service Provider Metadata on View
Connection Server,” on page 62.
Change the Expiration Period for Service Provider Metadata on View
Connection Server
If you do not change the expiration period, View Connection Server will stop accepting SAML assertions
from the SAML authenticator, such as Access Point or a third-party identity provider, after 24 hours, and the
metadata exchange must be repeated.
Use this procedure to specify the number of days that can elapse before View Connection Server stops
accepting SAML assertions from the identity provider. This number is used when the current expiration
period ends. For example, if the current expiration period is 1 day and you specify 90 days, after 1 day
elapses, View Connection Server generates metadata with an expiration period of 90 days.
Prerequisites
See the Microsoft TechNet Web site for information on how to use the ADSI Edit utility on your Windows
operating system version.
Procedure
1 Start the ADSI Edit utility on your View Connection Server host.
2 In the console tree, select Connect to.
3 In the Select or type a Distinguished Name or Naming Context text box, type the distinguished name
DC=vdi, DC=vmware, DC=int.
4 In the Computer pane, select or type localhost:389 or the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the
View Connection Server host followed by port 389.
For example: localhost:389 or mycomputer.example.com:389
5 Expand the ADSI Edit tree, expand OU=Properties, select OU=Global, and double-click OU=Common
in the right pane.
6 In the Properties dialog box, edit the pae-NameValuePair attribute to add the following values
cs-samlencryptionkeyvaliditydays=number-of-days
cs-samlsigningkeyvaliditydays=number-of-days
In this example, number-of-days is the number of days that can elapse before a remote View Connection
Server stops accepting SAML assertions. After this period of time, the process of exchanging SAML
metadata must be repeated.
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