PowerCLI help: Is ESXi host in Lockdown mode?

[cleffingwell]

Need help in getting a script that will poll the ESXi (version 4.x) host and list whether it is in Lockdown Mode.

Thanks much!

Clint

[LucD]

When you're using PowerCLI 4.1 you can do

Get-VMHost <hostname> | Select Name,@{N="Lockdown";E={$_.Extensiondata.Config.adminDisabled}}

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[JB204545]

Command worked great when using the virtual center name as the hostname but is there a way to find the ESXi host in lockdown mode when they are not managed by virtual center? PowerCLI is disabled on ESXi host running in lockdown so there would be no way to run this command.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Welcome to the VMware Communities forums. You could check in the DCUI to see if the host is in lockdown mode, but otherwise any API method will return an error (I suppose you could parse the error message to see if lockdown mode is potentially enabled).




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[JB204545]

Thanks Dave, I was thinking the same thing but not sure how to output the error messages to a file in powercli. DCUI will not work as I have a few hundread ESXi servers to check.