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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Management Assistant Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vMA
- Getting Started with vMA
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Required Authentication Information
- Deploy vMA
- Configure vMA at First Boot
- vMA Console and Web UI
- Configure vMA for Active Directory Authentication
- Configure Unattended Authentication for Active Directory Targets
- Enable the vi-user Account
- vMA User Account Privileges
- Add Target Servers to vMA
- Running vSphere CLI for the Targets
- Reconfigure a Target Server
- Remove Target Servers from vMA
- Modifying Scripts
- Configure vMA to Use a Static IP Address
- Configure vMA to Use a DHCP Server
- Setting the Time Zone
- Shut Down vMA
- Delete vMA
- Troubleshooting vMA
- Update vMA
- Configure Automatic vMA Updates
- vMA Interfaces
- Index
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Chapter 3 vMA Interfaces
Options
Examples
vifp rotatepassword --now
ImmediatelyrotatespasswordsofallESXivMAtargetservers.
vifp rotatepassword --now --server <server_address>
Immediatelyrotatesthepasswordofaspecificserver.
vifp rotatepassword --days 7
SetsthepasswordrotationpolicytorotatethepasswordofallESXivMAtargetseverysevendays.
Forexample,ifyouaddserver1on9/1,andserver2on9/2,andrunvifp rotatepassword --days 7,vMA
rotatesthepasswordforserver1atmidnighton9/8andthepasswordforserver2atmidnighton9/9.vMA
rotatestheserver1passwordagainon9/15andtheserver2passwordagainon9/16.Ifyouthenrunvifp
rotatepassword --days 3,vMArotatestheserver1passwordon9/18andthe
server2passwordon9/19.
vifp rotatepassword
Displaysthecurrentpasswordrotationpolicy.
vifp listservers
Liststargetsystems.
Usage
listservers [-l | --long]
Description
Youcanusethiscommandtoverifythataddserversucceeded.Thiscommanddoesnotrequireadministrator
privilegesonvMA.
Example
vifp listservers --long
ListsallserversthatarevMAtargets,forexample:
server1.mycomp.com ESX fpauth
server2.mycomp.com ESX adauth
server3.mycomp.com ESXi fpauth
vc42.mycomp.com vCenter adauth
Option Description
now Immediatelyrotatesthepasswordforallserversoraspecifiedserver.
server ESXihostforwhichyouwanttorotatethepassword.Use--serveronlywith--now.
never Neverrotatethepasswordforanytargetserver.
days Rotatethepasswordforalltargetserversafterthespecifiednumberof
days.