Update Host Profiles with PowerCLI

[hharold]

Hi there,

We are using a lot of Host Profiles for a lot of clusters....

Now we have to update the adminstrator password and setting in each and every host profile.

Host Profile | Security Configuration | Administrator Password | Configure a fixed administrator password

Is there any way to do this in an automated way?

Thanks and kind regards,

Harold

[LucD]

I'm afraid the current Host Profile cmdlets don't offer that functionality.

But I assume that this change could be done with the UpdateHostProfile method.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try this. I was able to change the administrator password this way.

function Copy-Property ($From, $To, $PropertyName ="*")
{
   foreach ($p in Get-Member -In $From -MemberType Property -Name $propertyName)
   {  trap {
         Add-Member -In $To -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $p.Name -Value $From.$($p.Name) -Force
         continue
      }
      $To.$($P.Name) = $From.$($P.Name)
   }
}

$hostProfileName = "MyHostProfile"
$newAdminPswd = "newpswd"

$hp = Get-VMHostProfile -Name $hostProfileName

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostProfileCompleteConfigSpec
Copy-Property -From $hp.ExtensionData.Config -To $spec

$secpol = New-Object VMware.Vim.ProfilePolicy
$secpol.Id = "AdminPasswordPolicy"
$secpol.PolicyOption = New-Object VMware.Vim.PolicyOption
$secpol.PolicyOption.Id = "FixedAdminPasswordOption"
$secpol.PolicyOption.Parameter += New-Object VMware.Vim.KeyAnyValue
$secpol.PolicyOption.Parameter[0].Key = "password"
$secpol.PolicyOption.Parameter[0].Value = New-Object VMware.Vim.PasswordField
$secpol.PolicyOption.Parameter[0].Value.Value = $newAdminPswd
$spec.ApplyProfile.Security.Policy = @($secpol)

$hp.ExtensionData.UpdateHostProfile($spec)

The script uses the Copy-Property function from Dennis Verwiej to copy the HostProfileConfigInfo object to the HostProfileCompleteConfigSpec object

[hharold]

Hi Luc,

thank you so much, this is exactly what I needed.

Regards,

Harold