While troubleshooting a Workload Management deployment, I logged into my NSX-T Manager appliance to see if there were any issues. I immediately noticed several alarms, with a majority of them relating to Password Management. Sure enough, my local accounts all expired. Let’s reset the accounts with REST API! For the purposes of this example, I…
I ran into an issue when enabling Workload Management in my lab where I was unable to ping the Control Plane IP Node IP Address. I followed a few different blog posts to get the environment setup. Specifically, Florian Grehl’s blog and Viktor van den Berg’s blog. I highly recommend them, as they are both…
I’ve been a big fan of NSX, having been a user of it going back to 6.2. Naturally, I was very excited when NSX-T was announced and was very anxious to get it stood up in my lab. After procrastinating long enough, I finally got NSX-T setup and configured. One of the first things I…
Engineers are always diligent about patching, especially when it comes to the lab (wink wink). So being the diligent engineer that I am, yesterday afternoon I setup a job in Update Manager to patch all my hosts in my cluster. I stepped away to run an errand, and when I came back my first host…
One of the more tedious things in dealing with NSX is to reclaim an IP address that is no longer in use. Here is a method I use with Postman and the NSX API. Setup your Authorization to use you NSX Manager username and password: Next, perform a GET request to your NSX Manager: This…
When working with the NSX API, the first step is always authentication. Load up your NSX Manager FQDN (or IP address), along with the NSX Manager username and password as variables in your code. The following code will take your variables and convert them to base64 for consumption and authenticate to NSX Manager via API:…