vicfg-hostops error

Hi All,

    I just got through the installation of vCLI and perl SDK. I installed all this in my vCenter SUSE VM it self. The vCenter is bootstrapped into the cluster. I am trying to reboot a host in my cluster using,

    vicfg-hostsops --operation reboot --server 10.243.xxx.xxx --username root --password

    I get this error - Server version unavailable at 'https:///sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545

     The solution for this from vmware support site is

Workaround: Follow these steps to resolve the issue:

1. Make sure the version of the LWP::UserAgent Perl module is above 6.0.4.
2. Turn off host name verification by running the following command:
   export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0

       The latest LWP::UserAgent perl module is 6.04 and nothing here which I have installed.

       Exported the variable and assigned it to 0.

I did all this but I still get the same error - server version unavailable.

Any ideas?