Adding vSphere Management Assistant to Active Directory:
All commands are case-sensitive.
- Run the sudo domainjoin-cli join command to join the vSphere Management Assistant instance to the class AD domain.
sudo domainjoin-cli join domain_name domain_username You must replace domain_name with the AD domain name and domain_username with the AD
domain user name.
- When prompted for the vSphere Management Assistant user password, enter the vSphere Management Assistant user password.
- When prompted for the domain administrator password, enter the AD domain user password. For help with the sudo command, you can enter sudo -h.
- Verify that the command successfully completes. If a warning appears recommending that you reboot the system, you must not reboot the system.
- Verify that the vSphere Management Assistant instance is part of an AD domain. sudo domainjoin-cli query
- If prompted for the vSphere Management Assistant user’s password, enter the vSphere Management Assistant user password.
