Error while attempting to connect to View Composer.

[SaltRiver]

Like most others i'm trying to get View 4.5 up and running

I have Vcenter 4.1 and View 4.5 installed on 2 Windows 2008 R2 VMs.

I've installed View Composer 2.5 on the Vcenter server, on the default port 18443.

I've disabled the firewalls on both machines to make sure can communicate.

But when I try to connect the Connection server to the composer i only get Error while attempting to connect to View Composer.

I am at a loss at this point,

The only thing i can find in the event logs is below, it shows about the same time i've done the installs.

No suitable default server credential exists on this system. This will prevent server applications that expect to make use of the system default credentials from accepting SSL connections. An example of such an application is the directory server. Applications that manage their own credentials, such as the internet information server, are not affected by this.

I would think the VM stuff manages it's own credentials.

Any ideas?

[eeg3 · Accepted solution]

Have you verified the Composer service is running on your vCenter server? Anything in the Event Viewer related to Composer?

[SaltRiver]

I restarted the service and verrified i saw it in task manager.

Still the same vague error.

[SaltRiver]

Thanks for the help egg

Under the Security Events i found, An account failed to log on.

So i went back and reentered all of the information.

I had not full entered domain\user into the username.

A silly mistake on my part cost me too much time.

Thanks for your help

[kopper27]

in my case I used a domain user account named virtualadmin

I assigned all the permissions in Virtual Center to that account and used that account to add the VC to my Connection server but when I enabled View composer I was getting that message so what I did was to add virtualadmin account as local admin in my VC