Host Active Directory Authentication Install Smart Card Trust Anchor

Install a trust anchor certificate for smart card authentication.

Required privileges: Host.Config.AuthenticationStore

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostActiveDirectoryAuthentication/{moId}/InstallSmartCardTrustAnchor

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 HostActiveDirectoryAuthentication/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.

Request Body

InstallSmartCardTrustAnchorRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "cert": "string"
}

string

cert

Required

SSL certificate in PEM format

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

HostConfigFault: if the host configuration prevents the certificate from being installed.

Returns HostConfigFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: VimFault

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

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Description

Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

204 Response Body

Errors

Host Active Directory Authentication Operations

POST

Host Active Directory Authentication Disable Smart Card Authentication