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Disabling web-access on the ESX server posted: Oct 24, 2006 11:39 PM

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Mike_Laverick
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I guess only if a user has a local account on the esx - and doesn't know the root account - they are not going to get very far with web-access. But what is the simplest way of disabling it - so use get no responses whatsoever from this service...

and another thing - is it me or is web-access a bit on slow side...???

Regards
Mike

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

1. Oct 25, 2006 3:50 AM in response to: Mike_Laverick
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mittell
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Hi Mike,

Have you tried /etc/init.d/vmware-webAccess stop ?

If that doesn't work you could disable CIMHttpServer and CIMHttpsServer services in the firewall, not sure whether this would affect the VI client though, haven't tried it.

And yes, you're right, the web access is a bit on the slow side....but then it's running on Tomcat, so what did you expect? ;)

Regards,

Alex

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

2. Oct 25, 2006 4:17 AM in response to: mittell
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Mike_Laverick
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and for you future uptimes...

I guess we would use something like chkconfig?

how would you make this stop - permamant...?

Regards
Mike

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

3. Oct 25, 2006 4:22 AM in response to: Mike_Laverick
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mittell
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Yep, it's in chkconfig.

chkconfig vmware-webAccess off

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

4. Oct 25, 2006 6:46 AM in response to: mittell
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Mike_Laverick
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Oh, by the way - thank you!

Regards
Mike

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

5. Oct 26, 2006 12:08 AM in response to: Mike_Laverick
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Mike_Laverick
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Opps... i perhaps should have thunk some more about this question...

that disables the web-access component but the welcome page and links to web-access and download of the vi client links remain.

There must be another apache daemon running somewhere?

Regards
Mike

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

6. Oct 26, 2006 4:10 AM in response to: Mike_Laverick
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mittell
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Hi Mike,

An lsof-i shows that it's vmware-hostd that's listening on ports 80/443. Not sure how you can disable them as you I believe vmware-hostd is required? Perhaps try disallowing the CIMhttp and CIMhttps services through the ESX firewall?

Regards,

Alex

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

7. Oct 26, 2006 8:22 AM in response to: mittell
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when disabling the CIMHttpServer and CIMHttpsServer nothing changes, because CIM is using other ports.

look at here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=53800&tstart=120

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

8. Oct 27, 2006 3:22 AM in response to: doomdevice
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well, if its not possible to block the ports (surely the cmd version of the firewall can block anything) at the very least we should be able to replace the default page with something uninteresting...?

Regards
Mike

Re: Disabling web-access on the ESX server

9. Oct 27, 2006 3:31 AM in response to: Mike_Laverick
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mittell
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Hi Mike,

Yes, you should just be able to replace the index page on the server with your own page.

It's located at /var/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot/index.html.

Regards,

Alex

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