Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hos...

mbabu1 · ‎06-23-2023

Hi LucD,

We have a few clusters where the hosts don't seem to have joined to a domain under authentication services.

Is there a script available where a it will join the domain by providing the domain, username and password.

At the moment we have over 100 hosts with this issue.

See attached picture of the settings.

Thanks in advance.

Mo

mbabu1 · ‎06-23-2023

I have found the following from a search:

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | Set-VMHostAuthentication -JoinDomain "prod.cyberintegration.net/cis/computers/esxi" -Username myusername -Password "mypassword"

How can I edit the script to run against a host.csv file which has a list of all the hosts...?

LucD · ‎06-23-2023

In a loop, something like this

# Assume the CSV has a column with the name HostName

Import-Csv -Path host.csv -PipelineVariable row |
Foreach-Object -Process {
  Get-VMHost -Name $row.HostName| Get-VMHostAuthentication | 
  Set-VMHostAuthentication -JoinDomain "prod.cyberintegration.net/cis/computers/esxi" -Username myusername -Password "mypassword"
}

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mbabu1 · ‎06-23-2023

Thanks LucD,

I will give the script a try and report back with feedback.

Another question, is there a script I can run against a vCenter to check all esxi authentication services settings and see what hosts are missing the domains.

Thanks

Mo

wetnose88 · ‎06-23-2023

You can refer to this posted by Luc D

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Script-to-get-if-ESXi-host-is-in-AD-or-not/td-p/4...

$report = foreach($vc in $global:DefaultVIServers){

Get-VMHost -Server $vc | Get-VMHostAuthentication |

Select @{N='vCenter';E={$vc.Name}},

@{N='VMHost';E={$_.VMHost.Name}},

@{N='AD Domain';E={$_.DOmain}}

}

$report | Export-Csv VC-ESXi-AD.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

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mbabu1 · ‎06-23-2023

Thanks, that's worked perfectly.

Many thanks wetnose...legend

Mo

Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts