Using FlexDisk VMDK with Horizon View 8
When upgrading to Horizon View 8 and using VMDK FlexDisks, its important to also plan an upgrade and config of the 6.8.4 CsMonitor service as Horizon View 8 support was added in ProfileUnity version 6.8.4.
Along with a lot of other changes in View 8, one of the things we need to account for is the new API authentication requirement for localhost connections. This now requires credentials to be configured within the 6.8.4 CsMonitor.exe.config file. (Located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Liquidware Labs\CSmonitor)
<setting name="CsUser" serializeAs="String">
<value>administrator</value>
</setting>
<setting name="CsPassword" serializeAs="String">
<value>‽</value>
</setting>
<setting name="CsDomain" serializeAs="String">
<value>defaultdomain</value>
</setting>
CsUser supports only a username, no UPN or other formats.
CsPassword gets entered in as clear-text, when the CsMonitor service starts it gets removed from the config, encrypted and stored within Windows' credential store.
CsDomain format should be the shortname of the domain in which the CsUser lives, i.e., for corp.domain.com it might just be CORP.
Once configured, (re)start the Liquidware Labs CsMonitor service and check within the CsMonitor.log file to confirm there are no errors regarding the rest api connection to the connection server. (Search for RestConnectionServerManager)
Starting with release 6.8.5, these settings will be included within the CsMonitor installer to automate this process.
Product: ProfileUnity
Product Version: 6.8.4 and newer