Hello,
I am encountering an issue with the Get-Baseline commandlet in PowerCLI. I am able to connect to the VI-Server I am looking to retrieve baselines from with Connect-VIServer and most other commands I have tried (Get-VM, Get-VMHost, Set-Cluster, etc.) work without issue - however, Get-Baseline does not work, and gives me the error message "Unable to Connect to the Remote Server." We have multiple VCenter servers on this network (some within the same subnet), and Get-Baseline works on some servers but not others. I am able to connect to each of these VCenters and run other commands with no issue; this appears to be the only problem command.
We're trying to figure out if this is a firewall/proxy issue of some sort - does Get-Baseline require additional ports to be enabled that other commands do not, or have any additional requirements?
get-baseline -server "<servername>" -name "*security*"
get-baseline : 2/14/2023 3:07:06 PM Get-Baseline Unable to connect to the remote server
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+ get-baseline -server "<servername>" -name "*security*"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-Baseline], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VumAutomation.Commands.GetBaseline
get-baseline -server "<otherserver>" -name "*security*"
Name Description Id Type Targe LastUpdateTime Numbe
tType rOfPa
tches
---- ----------- -- ---- ----- -------------- -----
Host Security Pat... A predefined base... 5 Patch Host 9/16/2022 9:38:03 AM 142
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Is port TCP 8084 to the VUM Server (probably the vCenter) open?
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Is port TCP 8084 to the VUM Server (probably the vCenter) open?
Blog: lucd.info Twitter: @LucD22 Co-author PowerCLI Reference
Luc,
That may be it. I can telnet on 8084 to the working VCenter, but not to the VCenters where we're having issues. Does that port need to be open for Get-Baseline (and by extension, Update-Entity) to work?
Yes, that seems to be an "undocumented" requirement
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Perfect, thank you. That narrows down our problem. I assume there's no way to specify another port for those commands?
Not that I know off.
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