Using a Configuration
File
You can use a text
file that contains variable names and settings as a configuration file.
Variables corresponding to the
options are shown in
Connection Options for ESXCLI Host Management Command Execution.
Limit read
access to a configuration file that contains user credentials.
Pass in the configuration file when you run ESXCLI
commands, by using the following syntax.
<command> --config <my_saved_config> <option>
The following example illustrates how you can use the
syntax.
esxcli --config <my_saved_config> network ip interface list
If you have multiple
vCenter Server
or
ESXi
systems and you administer each system individually, you can
create multiple configuration files with different names. To run a command or a set of
commands on a server, you pass in the --config
option with the
appropriate file name at the command line. The following example illustrates the contents of a
configuration file.
VI_PSC = XX.XXX.XXX.XX VI_USERNAME = administrator@vsphere.local VI_PASSWORD = admin_password VI_PROTOCOL = https VI_SERVER = my_vc
If you have set up your system
to run this file, you can run scripts against the specified
ESXi
host
afterwards.