How to list vCenter (VCSA) services in powershell / Powercli

Question

I need to list the Linux-based vCenter (VCSA) Services in powercli / powershell script. I don't know of any powercli cmdlet that will list the services. I thought of using vSphere REST API newly introduced in vSphere 6.5

The two calls I tried using postman / vSphere API explorer failed with unable to authorize:

https://{server}/rest/vcenter/services

https://{server}/rest/appliance/services

I was able to use administrator@corp.local to list vms and create new vms, so I am not sure what's going on

Tested listing services using vSphere REST API in postman and REST explorer

 $url = "https://{server}/rest/vcenter/services"
Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Get' -Uri $url -Credential $Cred 

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My questions: 1) Is there a powercli command to list services in linux based vCenter (VCSA) 2) Any idea how to have this done using vSphere REST API

Answer 1

The below worked. Please use an SSO account when prompted for credentials and confirm the account use has privilege to view the services from vSphere client.

Check: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/618154

$vcenter = <vcsa-FQDN>
$BaseUri = "https://$vcenter/rest/"

$SessionUri = $BaseUri + "com/vmware/cis/session"

$Cred = Get-Credential

$auth = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Cred.UserName + ':' + $Cred.GetNetworkCredential().Password))

$header = @{

    'Authorization' = "Basic $auth"

}

$authResponse = (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Headers $header -Uri $SessionUri).Value

$sessionHeader = @{"vmware-api-session-id" = $authResponse }

$result = Invoke-Restmethod -Method Get -Headers $sessionHeader -Uri ($BaseUri + "vcenter/services")

$result.value.value | select Name_Key, Health, State, Description_Key