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Controlling Orchestrator Access 8
You can control access to Orchestrator to improve security.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Disable Access to the Orchestrator Client by Nonadministrators,” on page 59
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“Disable Access to Workflows from Web Service Clients,” on page 60
Disable Access to the Orchestrator Client by Nonadministrators
When using LCM, the best practice is to limit access to the Orchestrator client only to administrators.
By default, all users who are granted execute permissions can connect to the Orchestrator client. However, you
can limit access to the Orchestrator client to Orchestrator administrators by setting a system property in the
vmo.properties Orchestrator configuration file.
IMPORTANT If the vmo.properties configuration file does not contain this property, or if the property is set to
false, Orchestrator permits access to the Orchestrator client by all users.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the following folder on the Orchestrator server system.
installation_directory
\VMware\Orchestrator\app-server\server\vmo\conf
2 Open the vmo.properties configuration file in a text editor.
3 Add the following line to the vmo.properties configuration file.
#Disable Orchestrator client connection
com.vmware.o11n.smart-client-disabled = true
4 Save the vmo.properties file.
5 Restart the Orchestrator server.
You disabled access to the Orchestrator client to all users other than members of the Orchestrator administrator
LDAP group.
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