Tag: vCenter

Script

Automating VMware/Broadcom URL Whitelisting Checks with a Simple Bash Script

I wrote another piece of bash script that I think others might fine useful, hence the blog post 🙂 It is some what inspired by DSvClient which I also recently did a new release of check it out here on MichaelRyom.dk or here on GitHub! Why I wrote this script I ran into issues working with vCenter and network security. It was a very practical problem: firewall and proxy rules were silently breaking essential VMware/Broadcom services. Broadcom publishes a public URL list that must be whitelisted for things like vSphere Update Manager, vSAN Cloud Health, and the VVS API. The […]

Script, VMware

vCenter IDM overview

Dealing with user rights in vCenter isn’t an easy task. Data is not readily available from the given users perspective, instead one have to look through the different rolls, to see what rights the user will end up with, a task that can be hard to complete or do compliance check on. vCenter IDM has always been hard. This has made me turn to the trusted tools of PowerCli, where the answer can quickly be found or data be exported to csv, for later use with your favorite spreadsheet. This post is about the powercli script that I use to […]