PowerCLI Authentication to Aria Operations Fails with 401 Error

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to authenticate to Aria Operations with VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) using PowerCLI, the connection fails with the error: 'The server operation failed with message: Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (401)'.

Environment

VMware Identity Manager 3.3.7

Aria Operations 8.x

Cause

vIDM is not listed as a supported authentication source for PowerCLI, which results in the failure when attempting to authenticate using the vIDM instance.

Resolution

To resolve this, specify one of the supported authentication sources in the PowerCLI command. The supported sources are ActiveDirectory, OpenLDAP, or VC. Use the following syntax for the -AuthSource

Parameter: -AuthSource <String>

Where <String> can be set to ActiveDirectory, OpenLDAP, or VC. The default authentication source type is LocalUser.

Additional Information

Local user authentication works as expected, but other authentication sources like vIDM are not compatible with PowerCLI by default.