The Service Portal on the Commander application server is published through the firewall on TCP port 443. When a Service Portal user logs in and requests a secure connection to one of the VMs inside the network, the following takes place:
- Commander responds by sending the user's browser a token identifying the request and the URL configured for the VM Access Proxy, as shown on the Integrations page in Commander.
- The user's browser next creates a session to the VM Access Proxy, published through the firewall on TCP ports 443 and 8443.
- The VM Access Proxy contacts Commander on TCP port 443 with the token and requests the connection details. The response provides the target VM's addresses and the protocol to use for the session.
- If the protocol is:
- RDP: The VM Access Proxy establishes the session to the cloud account, creating an in-browser RDP session over TCP port 8443 between the VM Access Proxy and the user's browser.
- SSH: The VM Access Proxy establishes the session to the guest operating system, creating an in-browser SSH session over TCP port 8443 between the VM Access Proxy and the user's browser.
- VNC: The VM Access Proxy establishes the session to the cloud account, creating an in-browser VNC session over TCP port 8443 between the VM Access Proxy and the user's browser.
- VMware console: The VM Access Proxy proxies the session between the cloud account (vCenter server) and the user's browser over TCP port 443.
- SCVMM console: The VM Access Proxy proxies the session between the cloud account (Hyper-V server) and the user's browser over TCP port 8443.
Important! If users will access their VMs from inside and outside of the cloud account (vCenter/SCVMM) network, DNS must be configured with addresses that will resolve correctly in both zones. Internal requests must get a responses with private addresses, external requests must get responses with public addresses.
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