Firewall settings added via command line on ESXi cannot be displayed in vSphere Client

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• The following command line to set SNMP configuration will add a dynamicruleset in firewall settings to ESXi.
  esxcli network firewall snmp set --targets=###.###.###.###@162/public
  
  This settings can be viewed by the following command. 
  esxcli network firewall ruleset rule list | grep -i dynamic 
  
  Results:
  dynamicruleset                 Outbound   UDP       Dst               162       162         
  
  
• However, this firewall settings cannot be displayed in vSphere Client.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server

VMware ESX

Cause

This issue is due to out-of-sync firewall settings between ESXi and vCenter Server.

Resolution

The following command runs to sync firewall settings between ESXi and vCenter Server.

esxcli network firewall refresh