ahautomation
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Very old thread, but i am running into the same issue.

Running 6.5.0u2

Or monitoring software needs to connect to 5988 (removed ip-adresses from following). 

Test-NetConnection 192.168.x.x -Port 5988
WARNING: TCP connect to (192.168.x.x : 5988) failed

Firewall is allowed, CIMServer is running, also tried to disable firewall. 

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ahautomation
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SHH into the ESXI-host.

vi /etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg

here you will see: httpLocalOnly is set to true, change it to false

/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart

and the port should be open. 

I found that this will not be able in future ESXI versions. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/82638

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