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Hello, Can someone please help me on this: We have almost 400 ESX hosts sitting in multiple vCenters. As a part of syslog configuration we have to add a new rule in each ESX hosts since we are using a different port for its communication as per syslog team. Some of the esx hosts already have that Firewall rule created. But many of them are missing. Here I have the ESX hosts name (FQDN) in one notepad, that require the new firewall rule needed. Lets say notepad name is; 'ESXhostName' and its location is: D:\ESX To create new Firewall rule in esx host, I have copied the firewall xml file (Lets say it name is: 'CompanyFirewall') in my local drive: D:\File\CompanyFirewall.xml This is the xml file: <service id="0032"> <id>concast backport</id> <rule id='0000'> <direction>outbound</direction> <protocol>udp</protocol> <porttype>dst</porttype> <port>2004</port> </rule> <enabled>true</enabled> <required>false</required> </service> Task: Adding this xml file in each esx hosts is time consuming. Hence can someone please help me creating a script that I can > Get the esx hosts from that notepad and > login with root credentials and > copy the xml file from my local drive and paste it in the esx hosts firewall location: /etc/vmware/firewall and (Not sure how can it possible) > Refresh the firewall for each esx host (We may need to modify this command as per the script) Got the below commands for refreshing the firewall from this link: vSphere PowerCLI - Configure syslog on VMware ESXi hosts and Enable security profile firewall | vGeek - Tales from real … $esxcli =  Get-EsxCli -VMHost esxi002.vcloud-lab.com -V2 $esxcli.network.firewall.refresh.Invoke() > Disconnect the host from the session > Get the next host from the notepad and do the same task again

Hello, Can someone please help me: I have a txt file that has the information of 15 esx hosts (6.7) (Lets say that txt file is in the folder: "E:\Script\esx.txt ". Those 15 esx hosts are in different different vCenters. My aim is to disable snmpd / enable ntpd / configure syslog only for those esx hosts in that txt file. Is it possible to perform this action via powercli ? like call all those esx hosts with its root credentials and perform the task?