Managing the Credential Store

You can use Perl to manage the credential store.

You can use the following approaches.

• Use the subroutines in VICredStore.pm in your Perl script. See vSphere Credential Store Subroutine Reference for reference documentation. The credstore_admin.pl script illustrates how to use the subroutines.
• Use the \apps\general\credstore_admin.pl commands to manage the store interactively.

Important: Create a user with appropriate privileges and store the corresponding user name and password in the credential store. Do not use the root or administrator user and the corresponding password.