Authentication

You can authenticate to

by providing a user name and password.

You can provide credentials in different ways.

Specify the

+username

option.

dcli> vcenter vm list +username user42 +password

If you skip the

+password

option, you can provide the password in a more secure way when prompted.

Specify the DCLI_USERNAME environment variable.

export DCLI_USERNAME=user42 
./dcli +server vcenter_server_IP com vmware vcenter vm list

Provide credentials when prompted by DCLI.

You are prompted for credentials if the operation requires authentication.

dcli> vcenter vm list 
Username: user42 
Password:  
Do you want to save credentials in the credstore? (y or n) [y]:

Save the credentials in the credential store.

You must provide the command against which the authentication should be applied.

./dcli +server vcenter_server_IP +skip +credstore-add +username user42 +password com vmware vcenter vm list

After you save the user name and password in the credential store, you will not need to provide credentials each time you connect to

VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 6.7