Admin Utility

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>

NSXv

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’

Edges

• 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>
  

Orphaned Edges

• 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
  

Missing Edges

• List missing edges on NSX. This includes missing networks on those edges:

  nsxadmin -r missing-edges -o list
  

Backup Edges

• 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
  

DHCP Bindings

• 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
  

Routers

• Recreate a router edge by moving the router/s to other edge/s:

  nsxadmin -r routers -o nsx-recreate --property edge-id=edge-308
  

Networks

• 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
  

Missing Networks

• List networks which are missing from the backend:

  nsxadmin -r missing-networks -o list
  

Orphaned Networks

• 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, Firewall and Spoofguard

• 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)
  

Metadata

• 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>]
  

NSXv3

The following resources are supported: ‘security-groups’, ‘routers’, ‘networks’, ‘nsx-security-groups’, ‘dhcp-binding’ and ‘ports’.

Networks

• List missing networks:

  nsxadmin -r networks -o list-mismatches
  

Routers

• List missing routers:

  nsxadmin -r routers -o list-mismatches
  

Ports

• List missing ports, and ports that exist on backend but without the expected switch profiles:

  nsxadmin -r ports -o list-mismatches
  

Security Groups

• 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
  

DHCP Bindings

• List DHCP bindings in Neutron:

  nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o list
  

• Resync DHCP bindings for NSXv3 CrossHairs:

  nsxadmin -r dhcp-binding -o nsx-update