vCenter Appliance Networking Commands

• Tool to check and modify the vCenter Appliance Network related configurations:

# /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net

• Network eth0 configuration file :

# /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.network 

• Command to list all open ports on PSC and vCenter Appliance: –

# iptables -L port_filter -n –line-numbers

From the above Iptables o/p, identify specific port is being used for which service :

# iptables -L port_filter 5 -n      ======== here “n” is the number from the above command result to check port 636

• Check uplink status :

# networkctl status

# networkctl status eth0

• To bring down/up ethernet adapter manually:

# ifconfig

# ifdown eth0   ========== To bring down Ethernet 0

# ifup eth0   ========= To bring up Ethernet 0

Alternate commands to bring ethernet up or down :

• Check route table :

# route

• Add new route :

# route add -net 10.10.10.0/24 gw 10.109.47.251

• Check network service status :

# systemctl status systemd-networkd

• Trace route :

# traceroute <IP-address>

• DIG (Domain information groper) to query DNS :

# dig <domain-name>

• DNS config file :

# cat /etc/resolv.conf