Host System Acquire Cim Services Ticket

Host System Acquire Cim Services Ticket

Creates and returns a credential used to establish a remote connection to a Web Based Management (CIM) interface.

Valid only when ESXi wbem authentication mode is set to password. The ticket provides the port for the service and sslThumbprint should be used by client to validate ssl connection. This ticket is valid for 2 minutes then will expire and is non-renewable.

Required privileges: Host.Cim.CimInteraction

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostSystem/{moId}/AcquireCimServicesTicket

COPY

Path Parameters

string

moId

Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case HostSystem/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.3.0 APIs.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

OK

Returns HostServiceTicket of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: DataObject

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "host": "string",
    "port": 0,
    "sslThumbprint": "string",
    "service": "string",
    "serviceVersion": "string",
    "sessionId": "string"
}

string

host

Optional

The name of the host providing the service for which the ticket applies.

If omitted, then the client uses the host name for the server that issued the ticket.

integer As int32 As int32

port

Optional

Access to some services is made possible by connecting to a port on a server.

If the service for which a ticket is issued is available on a particular port, that port number is specified with this property. If omitted, except in the case of connecting to CIM interfaces, the port number for the service that issued the ticket is used. In the case of connecting to a CIM interface the standard well known port for the particular service will be used for the connection.

string

sslThumbprint

Optional

The expected thumbprint of the SSL cert of the host to which we are connecting.

string

service

Required

The name of the service to which to connect.

string

serviceVersion

Required

A dot-separated string identifying the service protocol version.

For example, 1.0 is used for NFC hosted by vpxa on ESX 2.5, and 1.1 is used for NFC hosted by hostd on ESX 3.0.

string As password As password

sessionId

Required

An identifying string for the session created for the ticketed connection.

This is used by the host service to identify the operations permitted within the session.

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