Retrieve the Credentials for Restoring vCenter Server

Before restoring a vCenter Server instance, you must retrieve the vCenter Server root and vCenter Single Sign-On administrator credentials from the SDDC Manager inventory. Before restoring the Management domain vCenter Server, you must also retrieve the credentials of a healthy Management domain ESXi host.

Before you can query the SDDC Manager API, you must obtain an API access token by using admin@local account.

Prerequisites

Note:

If SDDC Manager is not operational, you can retrieve the required vCenter Server root, vCenter Single Sign-On administrator, and ESXi root credentials from the file-based backup of SDDC Manager. See Prepare for Restoring SDDC Manager.

Procedure

1. Log in to your host machine with access to the SDDC and open a terminal.
2. Obtain the API access token.
   1. Run the command to obtain an access token by using the admin@local credentials.

                      
      TOKEN=`curl https://<sddc_manager_fqdn>/v1/tokens -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username": "admin@local","password": "admin@local_password"}' | awk -F "\"" '{print $4}'`

      The command returns an access token and a refresh token.

   2. Record the access token.
3. Retrieve the vCenter Server root credentials.
   1. Run the following command to retrieve the vCenter Server root credentials.

                      
      curl https://<sddc_manager_fqdn>/v1/credentials?resourceType=VCENTER -k -X GET \-H "Accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" | json_pp

      The command returns the vCenter Server root credentials.

      Setting	Value
      domainName	Name of the domain
      resourceName	FQDN of the vCenter Server
      username	root
      password	vcenter_server_root_password

   2. Record the vCenter Server root credentials.
4. Retrieve the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator credentials.
   1. Run the following command to retrieve the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator credentials.

                      
      curl https://<sddc_manager_fqdn>/v1/credentials?resourceType=PSC -k -X GET \-H "Accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" | json_pp

      The command returns the [email protected] credentials.

      Setting	Value
      domainName	Name of hte domain
      resourceName	FQDN of the vCenter Server
      username	[email protected]
      password	vsphere_admin_password

   2. Record the [email protected] credentials.
5. If you plan to restore the management domain vCenter Server, retrieve the credentials for a healthy management domain ESXi host.
   1. Run the following command to retrieve the credentials for a management domain ESXi host.

                      
      curl https://<sddc_manager_fqdn>/v1/credentials?resourceType=ESXI -k -X GET \-H "Accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" | json_pp

      The command returns the ESXi root credentials.

      Setting	Value for first ESXi host
      domainName	management domain name
      resourceName	FQDN of the first ESXi host
      username	root
      password	esxi_root_password

   2. Record the ESXi root credentials.