Update VMware Gateway Credentials
If you specified incorrect credentials to your Platform9 VMware vSphere Gateway Appliance, and need to fix them, following tutorial describes how to do that.
Step 1 - Log into Platform9 VMware vSphere Gateway Appliance
Username: root
Password:<contact PF9 support for default password>
Platform9 strongly recommends that you change the default password.
Step 2 - Run the Platform9 update_credentials CLI Utility
The Platform9 gateway virtual appliance ships with a CLI utility update_credentials which allows you to re-authenticate your gateway appliance with vCenter.
If the username or password contains special characters, please enclose the text in single quotes (‘passw@$rd’), so that the values are interpreted correctly. Currently single-quotes (‘) and double-qoutes (") cannot be handled in the password, please change the password in such cases.
update_credentials -i <vcenter ip address or hostname> -u <vcenter username> [-p <vcenter password>]# If password option is not specified while invoking the command# you will be prompted to provide it later as password protected fieldOnce the authentication succeeds, you should see the gateway appliance appear in the Platform9 user interface as awaiting authorization.
Validate Credentials Only
In case you only want to test a particular set of credentials for permissions validity, before using them, you can use the ValidateOnly option:
update_credentials -i <vcenter ip address or hostname> -u <vcenter username> [-p <vcenter password>] -V# If password option is not specified while invoking the command# you will be prompted to provide it later as password protected fieldIn this case, the configuration files are not updated, but a brief report of the credentials permissions report is displayed.