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I administer a large number of ESXi hosts, and in order to do that efficiently, I pretty much need to have SSH allowed into the hosts at all times, as it's just far too burdensome to enable and disable SSH access through vCenter/vSphere on every host every time I need to log into a host and view the CLI or SCP files between hosts, or whatever else.

However, the problem I'm facing is that the default behavior in vSphere is to display a warning icon and nag-banner on any host for which SSH access is enabled.

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More than just being annoying, this makes it impossible to see from a quick visual scan if there's a warning condition I actually care about on any of my hosts, like high CPU or memory usage, or low disk space, loss of redundancy, etc.

So, how do I get rid of this warning icon (and if possible, the nag banner as well)?

HopelessN00b
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This particular alert can be controlled in the Advanced Settings under the Configuration tab for the host in question. Once there, go to the UserVars category and scroll down to UserVars.SuppressShellWarning. Change the value from 0 to 1, and you will no longer be warned that the host in question is allowing SSH access.

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  • I see what you did here... *smile* – Evan Anderson Jul 01 '14 at 12:25
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    Credit to our favorite @ewwhite for the solution, actually, but considering what a hellacious time I had finding this in the VMware docs, I figured I'd share it for everyone else as well. – HopelessN00b Jul 01 '14 at 12:26
  • I'm alright with you getting the rep rather than @ewwhite. >smile< (Now, if you're trailing me by less than 10K then I'd have a different opinion... >snicker<) – Evan Anderson Jul 01 '14 at 12:27
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In vSphere 5.5 and greater, this is easily accomplished from the vSphere Web Client interface by clicking the Suppress Warning link to the right of the warning text...

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ewwhite
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There are different ways to change this option.

All these solutions are listed in the VMware KB 2003637.

About SSH, you might find useful the esxcli way with :

vim-cmd hostsvc/advopt/update UserVars.SuppressShellWarning long 1

The full documentation : Cluster warning for ESXi Shell and SSH appear on an ESXi 5.x host

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