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Opening custom ports in firewall on ESX with powershell

Hi,

I've looked around on this forum and on the web for a way to open a custom port (5050) on my ESX hosts with powershell but I've only managed to find a way to open already defined ports (e.g NTP).

Is there a way to open custom ports in the ESX hosts firewall with powershell?

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Nick

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LucD
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The SDK only has methods for the predefined rulesets. Smiley Sad

That probably explains why the VITK doesn't offer this option either.

For custom rules I'm afraid you have to fall back to the esxcfg-firewall command on the ESX server.


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Good question. It definitely is more straightforward to work with the existing firewall rules. Hmm, I don't see a way to do this immediately, I'll have to research more. I'm sure LucD knows how off the top of his head. Smiley Happy






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The SDK only has methods for the predefined rulesets. Smiley Sad

That probably explains why the VITK doesn't offer this option either.

For custom rules I'm afraid you have to fall back to the esxcfg-firewall command on the ESX server.


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Ok then I know I have to log in to every ESX and modifiy the firewall one by one.

Thanks for the quick answers! Smiley Happy

/Nick

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halr9000
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Whoah there, Nelly! Nobody said you had to do it one-by-one!

http://halr9000.com/article/445

http://halr9000.com/article/448

http://halr9000.com/article/450

(and this one just minutes ago) http://halr9000.com/article/633






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