It’s 2015 folks and let’s face it, everyone has a mobile device with e-mail. No one wants to have to login to a web portal to approve your request. That’s why I am here to show you how to configure vRA so you can approve requests from your e-mail.
Let’s get started, first thing you are going to need have your E-mail administrator create a new e-mail account. This will be the account that vRA will watch for approval requests. Something like vRA-notifcations@company.com works.
Now login to the vRA as Administrator and go to the Administration Tab, then Notifications
Now click e-mail servers, then click add
Enter your information for your IMAP or POP3 e-mail account then test connection and click Submit
Fire off a new request that has approvals configured
Check the e-mail for the approver and click the approve link.
You should now see another e-mail open with the To: field marked with the e-mail account we setup earlier.
Enter a response and click send.
In a few moments the requester should see the status change from Pending Approval to In progress
