What is the meaning of the services in Security Profile

[zhangfred_vm]

Dear friends,

what is the meaning of the services in the security profile?

Kerberos,

Active Directory Kerberos:

CommVault Dynamic:

NIS client

CIM SERVER

CIM SLP

[admin]

These are ports that the Service Console has closed by default on the Firewall. NIS, Kerberos, or Active Directory would have to be opened if you were going to configure your ESX server to authenticate using one of those directory services. (configured with the command esxcfg-auth by the way) By default those ports are closed and have to be opened if you're going to use that service.

[esiebert7625 · Accepted solution]

See this doc for more on the ESX built-in firewall.

Esxcfg-firewall - http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:do0cm-wxcWsJ:download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/labs2006/vmworld....

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