Hi,
our penetration test team criticizes a running SLP Service on Port 427 tcp/udp on all our ESXi hosts 5.0 (HP380G6-G8).
Does someone know if this Service is needed on a standard ESXi host connectet to a vCenter (maby for the hardware tab)?
We are NOT running any third party tools to monitor the hosts (HP agent e.g). But we have installed the CIM Provider for the vCenter integration.
Just closing "CIM SLP" via firewall rules did not bring up any problems promptly as far as I see, but I want to be really sure.
Any help would be appreciated.
Chris