Horizon direct connection plugin

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Horizon Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In (formerly View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In) is packaged in an installer file that you can download from the VMware website and install. You can install Horizon Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In on a Windows or Linux machine where Horizon Agent is already installed.

Prerequisites

• Verify that Horizon Agent is installed on the machine.
  • For information on installing Horizon Agent on a Windows machine, see Windows Desktops and Applications in Horizon . If your environment does not include Connection Server, install Horizon Agent from the command line and specify a parameter that tells Horizon Agent not to register with Connection Server. See Windows - Set Up the Desktop for HTML Access.
  • For information on installing Horizon Agent on a Linux machine, see "Install Horizon Agent on a Linux Virtual Machine" and "Command-Line Options for Installing Horizon Agent for Linux" in Linux Desktops and Applications in Horizon . To support direct connections to single-session desktops, install Horizon Agent with default installation parameters. To support direct connections to multi-session desktops and applications, install Horizon Agent with the --multiple-session parameter included.

  Windows Installation Procedure

  1. Download the Horizon Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In installer file from the VMware download page at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Navigate to the download page for your release of VMware Horizon and then to the download page for Horizon Agent Direct-Connection. The installer filename is VMware-viewagent-direct-connection-x86_64-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe for 64-bit Windows or VMware-viewagent-direct-connection--y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe for 32-bit Windows, where y.y.y is the version number and xxxxxx is the build number.
  2. Double-click the installer file.
  3. (Optional) Change the TCP port number. The default port number is 443.
  4. (Optional) Choose how to configure the Windows Firewall service. By default, Configure Windows Firewall automatically is selected and the installer configures Windows Firewall to allow the required network connections.
  5. (Optional) Choose whether to deactivate SSL 3.0. By default, Disable support for SSLv3 automatically (recommended) is selected and the installer deactivates SSL 3.0 at the operating system level. This option is not displayed and the installer performs no action if SSL 3.0 is already explicitly enabled or deactivated in the registry. If this option is deselected, the installer also performs no action.
  6. Follow the prompts and finish the installation.

  Linux Installation Procedure

  1. Install the nginx package using the appropriate commands for your operating system.

  apt-get install nginx

  yum install epel-release yum install nginx

  • For SLED/SLES 15.x, replace with 'http://nginx.org/packages/sles/15' .
  • For SLED/SLES 12.x, replace with 'http://nginx.org/packages/sles/12' .

  sudo zypper addrepo -G -t yum -c ' ' nginx wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key sudo rpm --import nginx_signing.key sudo zypper install nginx

  Note: Ensure that you download the version of the Horizon Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In installer that matches the version of Horizon Agent installed on the Linux machine.

  tar -xvzf VMware-horizonagent-linux-vadc-x86_64-YYMM-y.y.y-xxxxxx.tar.gz

  sudo ./install_vadc.sh