error: enumInstances No data received from server

[filo891]

Hi,

I'm getting the following error when running the below command:

[root@esxi:~] /usr/lib/vmware/vm-support/bin/swfw.sh

Software and Firmware versioning info from CIM Providers.

error: enumInstances No data received from server

[root@esxi:~] vmware -vl

VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-5310538

VMware ESXi 6.5.0 GA

I was using the command to see the firmware versions of the server components. It was working fine, then I have updated the HP Smart Array P440ar firmware, rebooted the host (twice), and the same command which was working before is now giving me this error.

The local datastore is accessible, so I believe the firmware upgrade went well, but I'm not sure if it is related to this problem or not.

Googling for the error message did not return any relevant results.

Any hints what might be wrong?

Thanks a lot!

[kbiradar]

Hi There

The reason behind this error is that CIM service is not running on your host.

You get enable CIM service by running below command on your esxi shell

esxcli system wbem set -e true

And then try again.

To get status of CIM service you can do

esxcli system wbem get

Which will return something like below

   Authorization Model: password

  Enabled: true

   Loglevel: warning

   Port: 5989

   WSManagement Service: true

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