I have vCenter 5.5 with SSO on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit.
We have successfully deployed the BDE OVA files and the management-server is booted and running.
We have added and registered the BDE plug-in and we have connected to the management-server.
We have opened the management-server's VMWare Web Client console and logged in as the serengeti user and changed the password.
We cannot log into the management-server (the Serengeti server) using the java based "Serengeti CLI 1.0.0" client from the Windows vCenter system.
We open a DOS shell, and the launch the CLI with the command: 'java -jar serengeti-cli-1.0.0.jar'
The CLI starts fine, and we issue the "connect --host IP_Address:8443" command, we do get the login prompt.
We try to log in as 'serengeti' using the new (correct) password.
serengeti>connect --host IP_Address:8443
Enter the username: serengeti
Enter the password: ***********
The connection is refused, may be invalid username or invalid password. Try to reconnect.
Enter the password:
Try 3 times and then...
connect failed no connection to serengeti server. You should connect it first.
serengeti>
When we use the management-server's vSphere Web Client console, we can log in and out without problems using the 'serengeti' user ID and password.
The CLI help page on VMWare is pretty basic:
