Snapcenter vshpere plugin 4.5 - powershell

Nirsh — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:14:36 GMT

Dear team,

I'm trying to generate a token for api queries with powershell, but can't find the right way to do it...

How can I generate a token with powrrshell or create a permanent token?

Re: Snapcenter vshpere plugin 4.5 - powershell

aladd — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 05:52:37 GMT

What kind of queries are you attempting to run?

Re: Snapcenter vshpere plugin 4.5 - powershell

TonyPatton — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:50:13 GMT

This is how I did it, not necessarily the best or tidiest way. I was trying to learn how to do REST APIs in PowerShell, so it's probably a mixture of multiple methods. I never did go back and finish the script I was writing (for backup reports).

$RESTAPIServer = "<snapcenter appliance fqdn/ip>:8144" # Get credentials try { $credentials = Import-Clixml <file with encrypted credentials>.xml -ErrorAction:Stop } catch { write-host "Could not open credentials." -ForegroundColor Red exit (1) } $REST_API_User = $credentials.UserName $REST_API_Password = $credentials.GetNetworkCredential().Password $loginRequest = @{ username = $REST_API_User password = $REST_API_Password } | ConvertTo-Json # Set REST authentication headers $baseURL = "https://" + $RESTAPIServer + "/api/4.1" $SnapcenterSessionURL = $baseURL + "/auth/login" $Type = "application/json" $params = @{ Uri = $SnapcenterSessionURL Body = $loginRequest ContentType = 'application/json' Method = 'POST' } $authResponse = Invoke-RestMethod @params if ($authResponse.statusCode -eq 200) { write-host "Authentication successful" $authToken = $authResponse.response.token }

The credentials are encrypted in an XML file, only decryptable by the account & on the machine that they were encrypted on.

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