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Description

This command just uses the general options. It connects to the API and prints some vsphere version information.

Options

Besides the general options this command supports the following options:

optiondescription
--skip-permissionskips the System.View permission check, if omitted about check if it has System.View permissions. If it does not and --sessionfile is active the sessionfile is deleted if the check fails.

Example

$ check_vsphere about -s vcenter.example.com -u naemon@vsphere.local -nossl
OK: VMware vCenter Server 6.7.0 build-18485185, api: VirtualCenter/6.7.3, product: VMware VirtualCenter Server 6.0