When use SOAP to monitor VMWARE host performance, password will be sent in plain text?

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When use SOAP to monitor VMWARE host performance, password will be sent in plain text? If yes, anyway to avoid

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Hello,

Thank you for your KB-Post. It's not quite clear, what you are referring to. Within the SOAP Query the password is indeed sent in plaintext, according to the concept of SOAP. However the entire transmission of the SOAP Query itself to the target host, is SSL/TLS encrypted.

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