This article is part of a series of articles about issues I encountered during implementation of a vSphere stretched cluster based on vSphere 6.7 U1.
You can find the introduction article here
Issue 2
For some configuration settings I need SSH access to the host. I use plink.exe to execute instructions through the SSH session. One issue, the first time when you connect with plink you get a message about storing the fingerprint ID in the cache. Normally you would accept this when using putty. But now this is going to be a challenge.
On some other blogs I found the solution. You echo the ‘Y’ which results in storing the ID in the cache.
In my code I now call plink two times. The first time to accept the fingerprint, the second time to execute the command.
Why two times ? Well, I can’t assume that the fingerprint ID is already known.
The first plink instruction is a simple exit, we only want to check if we can logon.
$credential=get-credential
$plink="d:\plink.exe $hostname -l "+ $credential.username + " -pw " + $credential.getnetworkcredential().password
$command="ls"
invoke-expression ("echo Y | " + $plink + " -ssh exit")
invoke-expression ($plink + " "+ $command)
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