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  • 1.  Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Jul 27, 2014 06:59 PM

    Hi all,

    Hope you are having gr8 day.

    We have recently upgraded from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5. After upgrade everything is working find except Webclient. It is not accessible through the URL: https://ipaddress:9443/vsphere-client with in the vCenter and outside. We are able to access vCenter through https://localhost:9443/vsphere-client. Are we missing something here. Kindly suggest.

    Regards,

    Vikram kumar.



  • 2.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Jul 27, 2014 07:07 PM

    This sounds like a firewall issue, i.e. port 9443 being blocked!? If this is the Windows based vCenter Server, check the Windows firewall and allow port 9443 for incoming traffic.

    André



  • 3.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Jul 27, 2014 07:39 PM

    We are not able to access webclient from the vCenter machine itself and other machine in the same segment. Windows Firewall for these VMs are off.



  • 4.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Jul 27, 2014 07:55 PM

    Try with FQDN.

    https://vcenter.example.com:9443/vsphere-client.

    Also ping the vCenter IP and check if its reachable from outside. Restart the web client service once.



  • 5.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Jul 27, 2014 08:50 PM

    Unable to access with FQDN, able to reach vcenter server from outside network and nslookup is resolve the IP. Tried restarting the web client service, but no luck.



  • 6.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Jul 29, 2014 02:21 PM

    Did you install the web client in a different path? There is a bug in web client if installed in a path other than the default. See KB article VMware KB: Connecting to vSphere Web Client fails with the error: HTTP Status 404



  • 7.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Aug 06, 2014 12:54 PM

    Hi Rommel,

    Thanks alot for you reply,

    No, we have not installed the Web Clien in different path.



  • 8.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Aug 06, 2014 12:59 PM

    Hi,

    We have restarted the web client which didn't not help. So, we have logged in through administrator@vsphere.local and then we have restarted the Webclient then we were able to access the webclient with  https://ipaddress:9443/vsphere-client.

    We are not sure, if we have to log in first time with administrator@vsphere.local and then it will allow to access webclient with IP address.



  • 9.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Aug 07, 2014 04:15 AM

    Have you tried a different browser?



  • 10.  RE: Webclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter

    Posted Aug 12, 2014 11:10 AM

    Yes, we have tried with different browsers at the time of the issue. But, the issue resolved only after we logged in with administrator@vsphere.local and restarted the webclient