VMWare ESX variables for Integrate Nagios plugins

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Hey Team,

I’m trying to create an ssh script that uses the user and password that is stored in VMWare ESX for vSphere rule.
In my Integrate Nagios plugins rule I have the below as the command line with the user and password hard coded.

sshpass -p 'SECRET' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@$HOSTADDRESS$ /opt/lsi/storcli/check_raid.sh

And it works, but I want to change the ‘SECRET’ and user ‘root’ to be the actual variables that are stored in the below.

vSphere User name: 	root
vSphere secret: 	Explicit, ******

Is the vSphere User name and vSphere secret stored as a variable that I can access from other scripts or rules ?

Many thanks in advance

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Short answer “no”
For classic Nagios plugins you have only the possibility to user the user macros $USER5$ and so on or write the credentials as you shown as “hardcoded”.

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I managed to create a custom host attribute and use that as a variable.
Seems to work OK.

Thanks

Name	esxi-pass

sshpass -p '$_HOSTESXI-PASS$' ssh -o
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