Connect-NIServer

NAME Connect-NIServer



SYNOPSIS

Connects to the Network Insight Service on the VMware Cloud Services

Platform and constructs a connection object.





SYNTAX

Connect-NIServer [-RefreshToken] <String> [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

The Connect-NIServer cmdlet returns a connection object that contains

an authentication token which the rest of the cmdlets in this module

use to perform authenticated REST API calls.



The connection object contains the Cloud Services Platform token, the expiry

datetime that the token expires and the NI server address.



The RefreshToken can be found in your profile, here:

https://console.cloud.vmware.com/csp/ga ... ser/tokens





PARAMETERS

-RefreshToken <String>

The Refresh Token from your VMware Cloud Services Portal



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Connect-NIServer -RefreshToken xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx



Connect to the VMware Cloud Services Portal with your specified Refresh Token.

The cmdlet will connect to the CSP, validate the token and will return an

access token. Returns the connection object, if successful.











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