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Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

mbabu1 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:57:13 GMT

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.

Re: Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

mbabu1 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:11:32 GMT

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...?

Re: Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

LucD — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:11:23 GMT

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" }

Re: Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

mbabu1 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:47:29 GMT

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

Re: Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

wetnose88 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:55:48 GMT

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/498803

$report = foreach($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

Re: Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

mbabu1 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:56:11 GMT

Thanks, that's worked perfectly.

Many thanks wetnose...legend