ESXi Firewall Commands

Firewall Configuration Using the ESXi Shell

 

The vSphere Web Client graphical user interface provides the preferred means of performing many configuration tasks. However, you can use the ESXi Shell to configure ESXi at the command line.

Firewall Commands

Command	Description
esxcli network firewall get	Returns the enabled or disabled status of the firewall and lists default actions.
esxcli network firewall set --default-action	Update default actions.
esxcli network firewall set --enabled	Enable or disable the ESXi firewall.
esxcli network firewall load	Load the firewall module and rule set configuration files.
esxcli network firewall refresh	Refresh the firewall configuration by reading the rule set files if the firewall module is loaded.
esxcli network firewall unload	Destroy filters and unload the firewall module.
esxcli network firewall ruleset list	List rule sets information.
esxcli network firewall ruleset set --allowed-all	Set the allowedall flag.
esxcli network firewall ruleset set --enabled	Enable or disable the specified rule set.
esxcli network firewall ruleset allowedip list	List the allowed IP addresses of the specified rule set.
esxcli network firewall ruleset allowedip add	Allow access to the rule set from the specified IP address or range of IP addresses.
esxcli network firewall ruleset allowedip remove	Remove access to the rule set from the specified IP address or range of IP addresses.