Editing Credentials for ESXi Hosts

You can edit the credentials for one or more ESXi hosts at a time.

1. From the Home tab, select Inventory > vSphere.

2. On the vSphere page, click the Compute link, and then click the Hosts link.

3. Select the ESXi host or hosts for which you want to add credentials.

4. Select Actions > Edit Credentials.

5. On the Edit Host Credentials page, select Service Account Credentials or Managed Credentials Account and enter the new credentials.

   For a Service Account: 

   Field	Value
   Service Account	The vCenter service account to be used for CloudControl. The same account must be used across all vCenter Servers, and it must have administrator privileges.
   Service Account Password	The password for the vCenter service account.

   For a Managed Credentials Account

   Field	Value
   Account	Select the managed credentials account that you want to use. If you have not yet created a managed credentials account, see Creating a Credential Management Account.
   Secret Name	For Secrets Vault, this is the secret name to be used to access the secret in the format box:secret that be found in the KeyControl webGUI. Where 'box' is the name of the box that contains the secret, and 'secret' is the name of the secret. For example, box1:secret1. For CyberArk, this is the secret ID.

6. If you are editing credentials for one ESXi host, click Apply.
7. If you are editing credentials for more than one ESXi host, click Continue, then close the window after you review the Details tab.