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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples
- Contents
- About This Book
- vSphere CLI Command Overviews
- Introduction
- List of Available Host Management Commands
- Targets and Protocols for vCLI Host Management Commands
- Supported Platforms for vCLI Commands
- Commands with an esxcfg Prefix
- ESXCLI Commands Available on Different ESXi Hosts
- Trust Relationship Requirement for ESXCLI Commands
- Using ESXCLI Output
- Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands
- Connection Options for DCLI Commands
- vCLI Host Management Commands and Lockdown Mode
- Managing Hosts
- Managing Files
- Managing Storage
- Introduction to Storage
- Examining LUNs
- Detach a Device and Remove a LUN
- Reattach a Device
- Working with Permanent Device Loss
- Managing Paths
- Managing Path Policies
- Scheduling Queues for Virtual Machine I/O
- Managing NFS/NAS Datastores
- Monitor and Manage FibreChannel SAN Storage
- Monitoring and Managing Virtual SAN Storage
- Monitoring vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Monitoring and Managing Virtual Volumes
- Migrating Virtual Machines with svmotion
- Configuring FCoE Adapters
- Scanning Storage Adapters
- Retrieving SMART Information
- Managing iSCSI Storage
- iSCSI Storage Overview
- Protecting an iSCSI SAN
- Command Syntax for esxcli iscsi and vicfg-iscsi
- iSCSI Storage Setup with ESXCLI
- iSCSI Storage Setup with vicfg-iscsi
- Listing and Setting iSCSI Options
- Listing and Setting iSCSI Parameters
- Enabling iSCSI Authentication
- Set Up Ports for iSCSI Multipathing
- Managing iSCSI Sessions
- Managing Third-Party Storage Arrays
- Managing Users
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Managing vSphere Networking
- Introduction to vSphere Networking
- Retrieving Basic Networking Information
- Troubleshoot a Networking Setup
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Standard Switches
- Setting Up Virtual Switches and Associating a Switch with a Network Interface
- Retrieving Information About Virtual Switches
- Adding and Deleting Virtual Switches
- Checking, Adding, and Removing Port Groups
- Managing Uplinks and Port Groups
- Setting the Port Group VLAN ID
- Managing Uplink Adapters
- Adding and Modifying VMkernel Network Interfaces
- Managing VMkernel Network Interfaces with ESXCLI
- Add and Configure an IPv4 VMkernel Network Interface with ESXCLI
- Add and Configure an IPv6 VMkernel Network Interface with ESXCLI
- Managing VMkernel Network Interfaces with vicfg-vmknic
- Add and Configure an IPv4 VMkernel Network Interface with vicfg-vmknic
- Add and Configure an IPv6 VMkernel Network Interface with vicfg-vmknic
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Distributed Switch
- Managing Standard Networking Services in the vSphere Environment
- Setting the DNS Configuration
- Manage an NTP Server
- Manage the IP Gateway
- Setting Up IPsec
- Manage the ESXi Firewall
- Monitor VXLAN
- Monitoring ESXi Hosts
- Index
Example: Running Commands in Sequence
The following example shows how the commands are run in sequence.
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> –c public –t example.com@162/private --enable
# next validate your config by doing these things:
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> -–test
walk –v1 –c public esx-host
Configure the SNMP Agent for Polling with vicfg-snmp
You can use vicfg-snmp to congure the SNMP agent for polling.
Specify one of the options listed in “Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands,” on
page 19 in place of <conn_options>.
Procedure
1 Run vicfg-snmp --target with the target address, port number, and community.
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> -c public -t target.example.com@163/public
Each time you specify a target with this command, the seings you specify overwrite all previously
specied seings. To specify multiple targets, separate them with a comma.
You can change the port that the SNMP agent sends data to on the target by using the --targets
option. That port is UDP 162 by default.
2 (Optional) Specify a port for listening for polling requests.
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> -p <port>
3 (Optional) If the SNMP agent is not enabled, enable it.
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> --enable
4 Run vicfg-snmp --test to validate the conguration.
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> --test
Example: Running Commands in Sequence
The following example shows how the commands are run in sequence.
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> –c public –t example.com@162/private - -enable
# next validate your config by doing these things:
vicfg-snmp <conn_options> -–test
walk –v1 –c public esx-host
Retrieving Hardware Information
Commands in dierent ESXCLI namespaces might display some hardware information, but the esxcli
hardware namespace is specically intended to give you that information. The namespace includes
commands for geing and seing CPU properties, for listing boot devices, and for geing and seing the
hardware clock time.
You can also use the ipmi namespace to retrieve IPMI system event logs (SEL) and sensor data records
(SDR). The command supports both get (single return value) and list (multiple return values) commands
and returns raw sensor information.
See the vCLI Reference or the ESXCLI online help for details.
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