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Once you have completed the tasks on the hosts that required SSH Access, you may then return to the running script and type option ‘y’ in order to again disable SSH on all the hosts in the specified cluster:

SCRIPT:

########### vCenter Connectivity Details ###########

Write-Host “Please enter the vCenter Host IP Address:” -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline

$VMHost = Read-Host

Write-Host “Please enter the vCenter Username:” -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline

$User = Read-Host

Write-Host “Please enter the vCenter Password:” -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline

$Pass = Read-Host

Connect-VIServer -Server $VMHost -User $User -Password $Pass

########### Please Enter the Cluster to Enable SSH ###########

Write-Host “Clusters Associated with this vCenter:” -ForegroundColor Green

$VMcluster = ‘*’

ForEach ($VMcluster in (Get-Cluster -name $VMcluster)| sort)

{

Write-Host $VMcluster

}

Write-Host “Please enter the Cluster to Enable/Disable SSH:” -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline

$VMcluster = Read-Host

########### Enabling SSH ###########

Write-Host “Ready to Enable SSH? “ -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline

Write-Host ” Y/N:” -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewline

$SSHEnable = Read-Host

if ($SSHEnable -eq “y”) {

Write-Host “Enabling SSH on all hosts in your specified cluster:” -ForegroundColor Green

Get-Cluster $VMcluster | Get-VMHost | ForEach {Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where {$_.Key -eq “TSM-SSH”})}

}

########### Disabling SSH ###########

Write-Host “Ready to Disable SSH? “ -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline

Write-Host ” Y/N:” -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewline

$SSHDisable = Read-Host

if ($SSHDisable -eq “y”) {

Write-Host “Disabling SSH” -ForegroundColor Green

Get-Cluster $VMcluster | Get-VMHost | ForEach {Stop-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where {$_.Key -eq “TSM-SSH”}) -Confirm:$FALSE}

}