RVTOOLS Automation with Secure Authentication

[Ambarish08]

Hi Guys ,

I came across    communities link https://communities.vmware.com/message/2665608#2665608  related to RVTOOLS Automation.

I have similar requirement only the thing is that I don’t want to pass the Password of user in Clear text as shown below as well as passthroughAuth is not working in my  environment .

So how to encrypt the user password and pass to following command to generate an Automated RV Tools Report

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Robware\RVTools 3.9.5\rvtools" -u username@vsphere.local -p Test@1234 -s vcenter.yourdomain.local -c ExportAll2xls -d d:\exports\rvtools -f VC01.xls

[LucD · Accepted solution]

This isn't really a PowerCLI question.
But Rob documents how to create an encrypted password in his RVTools documentation on page 98.
When you encrypt your password with that tool, you can use the encrypted password on the -p parameter when calling rvtools.exe.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Robware\RVTools>RVTools.exe -s vcsa.domain -u administrator@vsphere.local -p _RVToolsPWDtphwdg4HjLjnJ1cT9YX6gyEtDqf6GFzCIS2Tq8ZMWiu4=