Command-Line Help

Available command-line help differs for the different command sets.
Command Set
Available Command-Line Help
vicfg-
commands
Run
<vicfg-cmd> --help
for an overview of each options.
Run
Pod2Html
with a
vicfg-
command as input and pipe the output to a file for more detailed help information.
pod2html vicfg-authconfig.pl > vicfg-authconfig.html
This output corresponds to the information available in the
vSphere Command-Line Interface Reference
.
ESXCLI commands
Run
--help
at any level of the hierarchy for information about both commands and namespaces available from that level.
DCLI commands
Run
--help
for any command or namespace to display the input options, whether the option is required, and the input option type. For namespaces,
--help
displays all available child namespaces and commands.
Run
dcli --help
to display usage information for DCLI.