Hi All,
Thanks in advance.
I want to automate EXSi steps like creating vlna, VMs and adding vSwitches and etc.
I don't have vcentre server purchased. Do I need it for this?
When I tried to login to EXSi using exsi login creds using rest api, I am getting below response.
curl -v -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'vmware-use-header-authn: test' --header 'vmware-api-session-id: null' -u 'root123' -p 'abc@123' 'https://exsitest.com/rest/com/vmware/cis/session' --insecure
Enter host password for user 'root':
* Rebuilt URL to: alef@123/
* Trying 0.0.0.123...
* Immediate connect fail for 0.0.0.123: Invalid argument
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server
* Trying 192.168.51.202...
* Connected to exsitest.com (192.168.51.202) port 443 (#1)
* found 148 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* found 592 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* SSL connection using TLS1.2 / ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* server certificate verification SKIPPED
* server certificate status verification SKIPPED
* common name: localhost.localdomain (does not match 'exsitest.com')
* server certificate expiration date OK
* server certificate activation date OK
* certificate public key: RSA
* certificate version: #3
* subject: C=US,ST=California,L=Palo Alto,O=VMware\, Inc,OU=VMware ESX Server Default Certificate,EMAIL=ssl-certificates@vmware.com,CN=localhost.localdomain,1.2.840.113549.1.9.2=#1321313534323337333434342c35363464373736313732363532303439366536333265
* start date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:04:04 GMT
* expire date: Fri, 17 May 2030 13:04:04 GMT
* issuer: O=VMware Installer
* compression: NULL
* ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol
* Server auth using Basic with user 'root'
> POST /rest/com/vmware/cis/session HTTP/1.1
> Host: exsitest.com
> Authorization: Basic cm9vdDphbGVmQDEyMw==
> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
> Content-Type: application/json
> Accept: application/json
> vmware-use-header-authn: test
> vmware-api-session-id: null
>
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:14:38 GMT
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< X-Frame-Options: DENY
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Closing connection 1
PS: I read somewhere in the document that for vsphere automation, I can use vCli and soapAPIs for Linux. Is that the final option if I decided to not to buy the vcentre license for now. Please confirm my this understanding and let me know if there are any other options available.
Thanks,
Latif