#How to install spiceworks on vsphere manual#

**minutes hours day_of_the_month month day_of_the_week command** Use the following crontab configuration format: Use the default text editor, if itРІР‚в„ўs your first time editing the crontab configuration. You can set up your scheduler configuration in Linux to run ESXi config backup automatically. In Linux, your scheduler is called Crontab. To run your backups automatically, just add a backup command or script to the schedule.

#How to install spiceworks on vsphere manual#

Manual backups are time-consuming and impractical, especially if your ESXi host configuration is always dynamically changing. From now on, you can use this file to run commands. Instead, save the ESXi session to the file. For security reasons, avoid using interactive mode. Until you clear the history, your executed commands remain saved, posing a security threat. Avoid entering the password or user name as plain text as in this example: You are now able to enter the username and password in the interactive mode. In this case, define the thumbprint for security reasons: This is because the SHA-1 thumbprint of the server is not trusted. We can see that the connection to the ESXi host has failed. For example, you can ask to review the list of devices of the ESXi server (The IP address of our server is 192.168.101.208) with the command