Edit a host profile

[Gabrie1]

Is it possible to edit a host profile using powercli?

We need to change our syslog server and I have scripts to edit the syslog entry on the ESXi hosts, but I see no way to edit the host profiles. I see cmdlets to create, re-apply host profiles, but not how to edit a specific setting.

Change the ESXi config, generate a new profile and apply that, is not an option since we have a number of items we need to exclude which also can't be done through powercli I think.

 

[LucD]

Theoretically yes, in practice rather no.
The layout and structure of these host profiles are not extensively documented I'm afraid.
You can do some reverse engineering and try to find out which setting goes where and in which format, like I did with he ESXi root password in the past, but it is a daunting task (which I don't really want to try).

[Gabrie1]

Was afraid so. Looking at doing this through API but not sure if that has the options I need.

[StuDuncanHPE]

This is also one of the reasons I stopped using Profiles and moved to a script that sets up the same thing using a lot of lines like:

$vmhost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $ShellTimeOut -Confirm:$false

or

$vmhost | Get-VmHostService | Where {$_.key -eq "ntpd"} | Set-VMHostService -policy $NTP