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Get-VICredentialStoreItem

Sun Jan 19, 2020 6:53 pm

NAME Get-VICredentialStoreItem



SYNOPSIS

This cmdlet retrieves the credential store items available on a vCenter Server system.





SYNTAX

Get-VICredentialStoreItem [[-Host] <String>] [[-User] <String>] [[-File] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

This cmdlet retrieves the credential store items that correspond to the filter criteria defined by the Host and

User parameters. Both the Host and User parameters support wildcards. If none of the Host and User parameters are

specified, all available credential store items are returned. If the Host and User parameters are specified

without using wildcards, and no item is found, non-terminating errors are reported for the Host and User

parameters. If no file is specified, items are retrieved from the default credential store file

%APPDATA%\\VMware\\credstore\\vicredentials.xml.





PARAMETERS

-File <String>

Specifies a path to a file where the credential store items that you want to retrieve are saved.



Required? false

Position? 3

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Host <String>

Specifies hosts for which you want to retrieve credential store items.



Required? false

Position? 1

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? true



-User <String>

Specifies users for which you want to retrieve credential store items.



Required? false

Position? 2

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? true



<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

Zero or more VICredentialStoreItem objects







NOTES





This cmdlet is not supported on the Core edition of PowerShell.



-------------------------- Example 1 --------------------------



Get-VICredentialStoreItem -User admin -Host 192.168.1.10 -File 'credentials.xml'



Retrieves the credentials for the 'admin' user on the specified host from a credential store file.



RELATED LINKS

Online Version: https://code.vmware.com/doc/preview?id= ... eItem.html

New-VICredentialStoreItem

Remove-VICredentialStoreItem