finding certain settings from the command line

[RattusXanthurus]

Hi,

Does anyone know a way to look up the following settings using the esxcfg* command line commands?

Promiscuous Mode setting on all Port Groups

Mac Address Changes setting (reject/accept)

Forged Transmissions setting (reject/accept)

We've had problems with the VI-Perl API trashing a certain essential Perl CPAN module (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/186321) so I'm hoping to avoid having to install that on all our ESX servers to be able to use a script to make sure those settings are set the way we want.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

This can be accomplished using vimsh

@ the vSwitch level:

[root@himalaya backup_test]# vmware-vim-cmd hostsvc/net/vswitch_info | grep -E '(name|allowPromiscuous|macChanges|forgedTransmits)'
      name = "vSwitch0",
               allowPromiscuous = false,
               macChanges = true,
               forgedTransmits = true,
      name = "vSwitch1",
               allowPromiscuous = false,
               macChanges = true,
               forgedTransmits = true,
      name = "vSwitch5",
               allowPromiscuous = false,
               macChanges = true,
               forgedTransmits = true,

@ the portgroup level:

vmware-vim-cmd hostsvc/net/config | grep -E '(name|allowPromiscuous|macChanges|forgedTransmits)'

Also, you shouldn't install any perl modules on the ESX host to use the VI API, they're already exposed using WSDL.

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--William

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

[petedr]

This is a good document explaining the various commands and options you can do with vimsh

http://knowledge.xtravirt.com/white-papers/scripting.html