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After the installation of the Cloudamize proxy, the status of the connection to your vcenter vCenter is "DISCONNECTED" with a message such as:
- "Connection Refused: Please make sure that you installed the Cloudamize Proxy correctly. The Proxy should be installed on a machine that has access to the Vcenter as well as to the internet."
- "UnknownException: An unknown error was encountered using the information entered. Please check the information that you provided and contact helpdesk@cloudamize.com for further assistance."
- "Connection Refused: Please make sure that you installed the Cloudamize Proxy correctly. The Proxy should be installed on a machine that has access to the Vcenter as well as to the internet."
Solution:
- The machine where the Cloudamize Proxy is installed needs to have access to the internet and to your vCenter machine.
Check that your machine is permitted to send outbound traffic to Cloudamize servers on port 443:
Using Curl:
command:
curl.exe 184.73.183.154:443
output:
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH
- Note: Curl is not installed by default in some windows version, please follow these steps here to install curl on your machine:
Using Telnet:
telnet 184.73.183.154 443
- Note: Telnet is not installed by default in some windows version, please follow these steps here to install telnet on your machine:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771275(v=ws.10).aspx
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