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vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:49:51 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for a script that can generate the Certificate expiry date of a vCenter(s).

I got this link: (Get-STSCerts.ps1) https://code.vmware.com/samples?id=7336#comments

But I was able to run the commands in the instruction Point 1 and 2. But getting the below error for point 3. Any suggestion? Or any other script that can use for ?

Get-STSCerts : The term 'Get-STSCerts' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

Re: vCenter Certificate

LucD — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:49:58 GMT

It looks as if you didn't do step 1 or 2 correctly.
Did you notice the 2 dots with a space in between in step 2?

That is called dot-sourcing and that is how you make sure your session "knows" that function.

Re: vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:46:46 GMT

Hello @LucD

This is what I have run:

cd 'C:\Scripts\vCenter Certificate'
". ./Get-STSCerts.ps1"

Get-STSCerts -vcenters <vCenterName> -user 'xxxx.xxx.com' -password 'xxxxxx'

Re: vCenter Certificate

LucD — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 06:50:23 GMT

You can check if you did that correctly by running

Get-Command -Name Get-STSCerts

Re: vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:56:52 GMT

Thank you for the reply @LucD

Not sure what I am doing wrong:

Re: vCenter Certificate

LucD — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:11:53 GMT

The problem is the quotes you used when you were dot-sourcing the .ps1 file.

That should be (without the quotes)

. .\Get-STSCerts.ps1

With the quotes, you are just showing a string on the console.

Re: vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 02:52:17 GMT

Hello,

Thank you @LucD ,

I was still getting some other error. But I got it fixed by unblocking it ( ' PS C:\> Unblock-File -Path C:\Downloads\script1.ps1') and then ran as you said. Thank you