Powercli to connect multiple esx hosts in a notepad file

[Vimal348]

Hello,

Can someone please help me:

I have a txt file that has the information of 15 esx hosts (6.7) (Lets say that txt file is in the folder: "E:\Script\esx.txt ". Those 15 esx hosts are in different different vCenters. My aim is to disable snmpd / enable ntpd / configure syslog only for those esx hosts in that txt file.

Is it possible to perform this action via powercli ? like call all those esx hosts with its root credentials and perform the task?

[scott28tt]

Moderator: Thread moved to the PowerCLI area.

[NathanosBlightc]

For example if you want to search inside the hostlist.txt file and start ntpd service ...

$hosts = Get-content -path ".\hostlist.txt"

foreach ($host in $hosts)

{

Connect-VIServer $esx -User  $root -Password $Passwd

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostService | Where-Object {$_.key -eq "ntpd" } | Start-VMHostService

}

Sadly I don't have access to any of my vcenter servers and couldn't test it anyway, so I'am not ensure about using against multiple vCenter however. For enabling the SNMP service, you can find a good solution in the following community link:

Set SNMP thru PowerCLI

For more information please check the following links

Run a command on ESXi using PowerCLis

Also for the syslog configuration I think it's better to run the "esxcli system syslog config set ... " via the PowerCLI. To achieve this, you can see this link too.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You could try something like this

$user = 'root'

$pswd = 'password'

$ntpServer = 'srv1.domain','srv2.domain'

$snmpUri = 'udp://syslog.domain:514'

Get-Content -Path 'E:\Script\esx.txt' -PipelineVariable esxName |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    Connect-VIServer -Server $esxName -User $user -Password $pswd

    Get-VMHostSnmp -Server $global:defaultVIServer |

    Set-VMHostSnmp -Enabled $false -Confirm:$false |

    Stop-VMHost -Confirm:$false

    Get-VMHostService -VMHost $esxName | where{$_.Key -eq 'snmpd'} |

    Set-VMHostService -Policy Off -Confirm:$false |

    Stop-VMHostService -Confirm:$false

    Add-VMHostNtpServer -VMHost $esxName -NtpServer $ntpServer

    Get-VMHostService -VMHost $esxName | where{$_.Key -eq 'ntpd'} |

    Set-VMHostService -Policy Automatic -Confirm:$false |

    Start-VMHostService -Confirm:$false

    Set-VMHostSysLogServer -SysLogServer $snmpUri -Confirm:$false

    Get-VMHostService -VMHost $esxName | where{$_.Key -eq 'vmsyslogd'} |

    Set-VMHostService -Policy Automatic -Confirm:$false |

    Start-VMHostService -Confirm:$false

    Disconnect-VIServer -Server $esxName -Confirm:$false

}

[Vimal348]

I tried both scripts and I am getting the below error:
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[LucD]

That is not from the script I posted.

Place the code in a .ps1 file and run the .ps1 file.

Don't copy the code line by line to a PS prompt

[Vimal348]

This is what I am getting:

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[LucD]

There seems to have been a copy/paste issue with my code.

I corrected the code above.
Please try again.