script to execute on vmware

bash shell vmware esxi
user3331975 picture user3331975 · Mar 11, 2014 · Viewed 17k times · Source

VMware ESXi systems provide a shell with specific commands like esxcli and works only on those nodes. I want to write a script to read the system IP from a file, login each system and execute the command esxcli network ip get.

When I execute the script, that returns "command not found" error:

> "./snmp.sh: line 3: esxcli: command not found

Is there a way to fix this? The script is as below:

#!/bin/bash

while read host; do
  ssh -n root@$host esxcli network ip get
done < esxi.txt

Answer

peterh picture peterh · Mar 11, 2014

exscli isn't in your PATH on the esxi server. Simplest fix is to use it with its full path (f.e. /usr/bin/esxcli). You can find the valid path of the esxcli command on the esxi server with the command which esxcli.

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