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Tentacle.exe command line

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Show thumbprint of the Octopus Tentacle's certificate

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to show the thumbprint of the Tentacle's certificate.

Show the thumbprint of the Tentacle’s certificate.

New certificate options

Usage: tentacle show-thumbprint [<options>]

Where [<options>] is any of:

      --instance=VALUE       Name of the instance to use
      --config=VALUE         Configuration file to use
  -e, --export-file=VALUE    Exports the Tentacle thumbprint to a file
      --thumbprint-only      DEPRECATED: Only print out the thumbprint, with
                               no additional text. This switch has been
                               deprecated and will be removed in Octopus 4.0
                               since it is no longer needed.
      --format=VALUE         The format of the output (text,json). Defaults
                               to text.

Or one of the common options:

      --help                 Show detailed help for this command

Basic examples

This example displays the Tentacle thumbprint in the default text format:

tentacle show-thumbprint

This example displays the Tentacle thumbprint for the instance MyNewInstance in JSON format:

tentacle show-thumbprint --instance="MyNewInstance" --format="JSON"

This example exports the Tentacle thumbprint to a file:

Windows:

tentacle show-thumbprint --export-file="c:\temp\thumbprint.txt"

Linux:

tentacle show-thumbprint --export-file="/tmp/thumbprint.txt"