Centralize Credentials Get-VICredentialStoreItem

[DonBennett]

Hi All,

Working on an Audit script run from the audit server that uses a generic account with Read Only access to all vCenters.  I would like to use the VICredentialStoreItem to store the credentials and have the script pull the credentials rather than sharing the credentials with those that would use the script.

I have tried this but no luck.

$vCenter = 'vc1','vc1'

$vCenterUser = 'ReadOnlyAccount'

foreach ($vC in $vCenter) {

     if (Test-Connection $vC -Count 2 -Quiet) {

          Connect-VIServer -Server $vC -Credential (Get-VICredentialStoreItem -Host $VC -User $vCenterUser -File 'C:\creds.xml')

     }

     else {}

[LucD]

The Get-VICredentialStoreItem does not return a PSCredential object, as is required on the Credential parameter.

Try like this

$credItem = Get-VICredentialStoreItem -Host $VC -User $vCenterUser -file “C:\creds.xml”

Connect-viserver -Server $credItem.Host -User $credItem.User -Password $credItem.Password