Using the --thumbprint
Option
You can supply the
thumbprint for the target
host or
system in the
--thumbprint
parameter or the
VI_THUMBPRINT
variable.
When you run a command, ESXCLI
first checks whether a certificate file is available. If not, ESXCLI checks
whether a thumbprint of the target server is available. If not, you receive an
error of the following type.
Connect to
sof-40583-srv failed. Server SHA-1 thumbprint:
5D:01:06:63:55:9D:DF:FE:38:81:6E:2C:FA:71:BC:Usin63:82:C5:16:51 (not
trusted).
You can run the command with the
thumbprint to establish the trust relationship, or add the thumbprint to the
VI_THUMBPRINT
variable.
For example, using the thumbprint of the
host
above, you can run the following command.
esxcli --server myESXi --username user1 --password 'my_password' --thumbprint 5D:01:06:63:55:9D:DF:FE:38:81:6E:2C:FA:71:BC:63:82:C5:16:51 storage nfs list