A very serious security problem has been found and patched in the Linux kernel. It was announced on 3rd January 2018. Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from […]
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How to manage ESXi Firewall Configuration
ESXi hosts have an inbuilt firewall setting between the management interface and the rest of the network. The firewall is configured to drop all incoming and outgoing traffic but for a specific set of services in ESXi Host.In order to secure ESXi host by allowing only certain IP addresses or IP ranges after a fresh […]
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Enable SNMP on VMware ESXi host
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows management programs to monitor VMware and control networked devices in VMware ESXi. SNMP configuration for ESXi requires vSphere Command-Line Interface. vCenter Server and ESXi systems include different SNMP agents. vCenter Server SNMP agent. The SNMP agent included with vCenter Server can send traps when the vCenter Server system is […]
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