NSX-T Manager Packages, Services and Logs

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Troubleshooting NSX-T Manager requires a good understanding of the NSX Manager architecture, the list of services running and the log files location.

The NSX Manager is a Ubuntu installed virtual appliance and can be deployed and configured on ESXi/KVM hypervisor hosts.

I am running NSX version 2.2 is installed in my lab environment.

NSX Manager Operating System version:

The lsb_release -a command will show the Ubuntu OS version running on the NSX-T Manager Virtual Machine.

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NSX Manager version:

From the nsxcli command line, run the get version command to check the NSX-T version installed on the NSX Manager virtual machine.

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We know that the NSX-T manager runs the Ubuntu OS and now lets at those proprietary NSX-T packages installed on NSX-T manager running the Ubuntu OS.

NSX Manager and Debian Packages:

Following are list of NSX-T Manager packages installed on the NSX Manager virtual appliance.

dpkg --list | grep -i nsx

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NSX Manager and some important NSX Services

The following list of services are critical to the NSX Manager:

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/corfu-server status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/corfu-server-inmem status

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/nsx-cluster-boot-manager status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/nsx-mpa 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/nsx-mp-api-server status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/nsx-opsagent-appliance status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/nsx-platform-client status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/nsx-ui-service status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/proton status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/install-upgrade status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/cm-inventory status 

root@sa-nsxmgr-01:~# /etc/init.d/upgrade-coordinator status

By default, the NSX-T manager logs are located in the /var/log directory . Here are some important log messages helps you to troubleshooting NSX-T Manager.

Inside the /var/log directory you will find the following log messages.

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We will discuss more about the logs and services in my upcoming blog posts.. Stay tuned.. Thanks for reading.

Please refer to the VMware Documentation for more information on NSX-T Data Center product at https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T/index.html

I hope this is informative for you and I thank you for reading.

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