The NSXv and the NSXv3 support the nsxadmin utility. This enables and administrator to determine and rectify inconsistencies between the Neutron DB and the NSX. usage: nsxadmin -r <resources> -o <operation>
The following resources are supported: ‘security-groups’, ‘edges’, ‘networks’, ‘firewall-sections’, ‘orphaned-edges’, ‘spoofguard-policy’, ‘missing-edges’, ‘backup-edges’, ‘nsx-security-groups’, ‘dhcp-binding’ and ‘metadata’
List backend NSX edges with their id, name and some more information:
nsxadmin -r edges -o nsx-list
Neutron list:
nsxadmin -r edges -o neutron-list
Update Resource pool / Datastore / edge HA of an edge: This utility can be used on upgrade after the customer added ha_datastore_id to the nsx.ini configuration or after changing the resource pool / data store globally or per availability zone. This Utility can update the deployment of existing edges:
nsxadmin -r edges -o nsx-update --property edge-id=<edge-id> --property appliances=True
Update the size of an edge:
nsxadmin -r edges -o nsx-update --property edge-id=edge-55 --property size=compact
Update the high availability of an edge: enable/disable high availability of an edge:
nsxadmin -r edges -o nsx-update --property edge-id=edge-55 --property highavailability=<True/False>
List orphaned edges (exist on NSXv backend but don’t have a corresponding binding in Neutron DB):
nsxadmin -r orphaned-edges -o list
Clean orphaned edges (delete edges from NSXv backend):
nsxadmin -r orphaned-edges -o clean
List missing edges on NSX. This includes missing networks on those edges:
nsxadmin -r missing-edges -o list
List backend backup edges with their id, name and some more information:
nsxadmin -r backup-edges -o list
Delete backup edge:
nsxadmin -r backup-edges -o clean --property edge-id=edge-9
List Edge name mismatches between DB and backend, and backup edges that are missing from the backend:
nsxadmin -r backup-edges -o list-mismatches
Fix Edge name mismatch between DB and backend by updating the name on the backend:
nsxadmin -r backup-edges -o fix-mismatch --property edge-id=edge-9
List missing DHCP bindings: list dhcp edges that are missing from the NSXv backend:
nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o list
Update DHCP bindings on an edge:
nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o nsx-update --property edge-id=edge-15
Recreate DHCP edge by moving all the networks to other edges:
nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o nsx-recreate --property edge-id=edge-222
Recreate a router edge by moving the router/s to other edge/s:
nsxadmin -r routers -o nsx-recreate --property edge-id=edge-308
Ability to update or get the teaming policy for a DVS:
nsxadmin -r networks -o nsx-update --property dvs-id=<id> --property teamingpolicy=<policy>
List backend networks and their network morefs:
nsxadmin -r networks -o list
List networks which are missing from the backend:
nsxadmin -r missing-networks -o list
List networks which are missing from the neutron DB:
nsxadmin -r orphaned-networks -o list
Delete a backend network by it’s moref:
nsxadmin -r orphaned-networks -o nsx-clean --property moref=<moref>
Security groups. This adds support to list security-groups mappings and miss-matches between the mappings and backend resources as: firewall-sections and nsx-security-groups:
nsxadmin --resource security-groups --operation list
nsxadmin -r nsx-security-groups -o {list, list-missmatches}
nsxadmin -r firewall-sections -o {list, list-missmatches}
Spoofguard support:
nsxadmin -r spoofguard-policy -o list-mismatches
nsxadmin -r spoofguard-policy -o clean --property policy-id=spoofguardpolicy-10
nsxadmin -r spoofguard-policy -o list --property reverse (entries defined on NSXv and not in Neutron)
Update loadbalancer members on router and DHCP edges:
nsxadmin -r metadata -o nsx-update
Update shared secret on router and DHCP edges:
nsxadmin -r metadata -o nsx-update-secret
Retrieve metadata connectivity - optionally for a specific network:
nsxadmin -r metadata -o status [--property network_id=<net_id>]
The following resources are supported: ‘security-groups’, ‘routers’, ‘networks’, ‘nsx-security-groups’, ‘dhcp-binding’ and ‘ports’.
List missing networks:
nsxadmin -r networks -o list-mismatches
List missing routers:
nsxadmin -r routers -o list-mismatches
List missing ports, and ports that exist on backend but without the expected switch profiles:
nsxadmin -r ports -o list-mismatches
List backed security groups:
nsx -r security-groups -o nsx-list
List neutron DB security groups:
nsx -r security-groups -o neutron-list
List both backend and neutron security groups:
nsx -r security-groups -o list
Cleanup NSX backend sections and nsgroups:
nsx -r security-groups -o nsx-clean
Cleanup Neutron DB security groups:
nsx -r security-groups -o neutron-clean
Cleanup both Neutron DB security groups and NSX backend sections and nsgroups:
nsx -r security-groups -o clean
Update NSX security groups dynamic criteria for NSXv3 CrossHairs:
nsx -r nsx-security-groups -o migrate-to-dynamic-criteria
List version 1.0.0 metadata networks in Neutron:
nsxadmin -r metadata-proxy -o list
Resync metadata proxies for NSXv3 version 1.1.0 and above:
nsxadmin -r metadata-proxy -o nsx-update --property metadata_proxy_uuid=<metadata_proxy_uuid>
List DHCP bindings in Neutron:
nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o list
Resync DHCP bindings for NSXv3 version 1.1.0 and above:
nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o nsx-update --property dhcp_profile_uuid=<dhcp_profile_uuid>
Upgrade NSX backend from version 1.0.0 to version 1.1.0
Create a DHCP-Profile and a Metadata-Proxy in NSX backend
Stop Neutron
Install version 1.1.0 Neutron plugin
Run admin tools to migrate version 1.0.0 objects to version 1.1.0 objects
nsxadmin -r metadata-proxy -o nsx-update –property metadata_proxy_uuid=<UUID of Metadata-Proxy created in Step 2>
nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o nsx-update –property dhcp_profile_uuid=<UUID of DHCP-Profile created in Step 2>
Start Neutron
Make sure /etc/nova/nova.conf has metadata_proxy_shared_secret = <Secret of Metadata-Proxy created in Step 2>
Restart VMs or ifdown/ifup their network interface to get new DHCP options