Log In with the Tanzu Mission Control (tmc) CLI

Access your organization's VMware Tanzu Mission Control resources using the command-line interface.

Note:

Support for the legacy tmc CLI ends with the release of TMC Self-Managed 1.3. It will not be supported after the release of TMC Self-Managed 1.4. Migrate to the tanzu CLI.

Prerequisites

You must be a member of a VMware Cloud Services organization that has access to Tanzu Mission Control to log in with the CLI.

Before starting this procedure, make sure you have already logged in to the Tanzu Mission Control console.

If you intend to run the Tanzu Mission Control CLI from a location protected by a proxy server, you must add the following URL to your proxy allowlist.

console.cloud.vmware.com

Procedure

Install the Tanzu Mission Control CLI (tmc).
1. In the left navigation pane of the Tanzu Mission Control console, click Automation center.
2. On the Automation Center page, click Download CLI, and then choose the environment where you want to use the CLI.
3. After the download completes, move the tmc executable to an accessible bin directory (for example, ~/bin or %UserProfile%\bin).
4. Make sure the bin directory is accessible on your PATH.
5. Make the file executable.
  - For Linux or Mac OS:
```
chmod +x ~/bin/tmc
```
  - For Windows:
```
move %UserProfile%\bin\tmc %UserProfile%\bin\tmc.exe
attrib +x %UserProfile%\bin\tmc.exe
```
6. Now change to a different directory and verify that the CLI is ready to use by checking the help.
```
tmc --help
```
  If you are running on Mac OS, you might encounter the following error:
```
"tmc" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
```
  If this happens, you need to create a security exception for the tmc executable. Locate the tmc app in the Finder, control-click the app, and then choose Open.
Open a command window and use the following command to log in.
```
tmc login
```

What to do next

After you log in, you can manage your clusters at the command line.