Helper module for using vCenter Smartcard auth (via
pivy-agent) with pyVmomi.
pip install git+https://github.com/eait-itig/vcsm
import vcsm
from pyVmomi import vim
si = vcsm.getServiceInstance(
host = 'vcenter.some.domain',
upn = '[email protected]',
cacert = '/etc/ssl/pivy-cert-ca.pem')
content = si.RetrieveContent()vcsm validates certificates before presenting them to vCenter, so it needs to use the CA cert for your smartcard certs. If your smartcard CA is not in the system CA certificate store, you can provide it to vcsm as a PEM-encoded file using the cacert argument to vcsm.getServiceInstance().