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GEN005300-ESXI5-000099 - SNMP communities, users, and passphrases must be changed from the default

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Information

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Solution

From the Power/v CLI, run the (below example) command: >
vicfg-snmp.pl --server <hostname|IP address> --username <username> --password <password> -E -c <community_name>
In the above example, -E enables the VMware SNMP agent, and -c sets communities to the provided name.

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_ESXi5_Server_V1R10_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Group-ID|V-39247, Rule-ID|SV-51063r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN005300-ESXI5-000099, Vuln-ID|V-39247

Plugin: VMware

Control ID: 311b0a1470b0d85205d973c7634eaf49a82cb4be76161f2e7e3d29e2495d49c5