Any reason you're adding individual ESX(i) host to vMA versus just adding the vCenter server? By adding vCenter target, you have access to all ESX(i) hosts under that given vCenter and you can still use AD authentication to vCenter and giving you access to each of the individual hosts. This is nice because if you had 200 hosts, you only need to add 1 vCenter system versus 200 separate hosts.
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That's correct, though note that not all vCLI commands integrate with vMA's vifastpass, some examples are esxcli and resxtop.
In either case, I would just write a simple script to query all ESX(i) hosts from vCenter, output that to a file and assuming you have the same root password across all hosts you can just loop through that list and add targets into vMA with adauth.
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