Skip to content

VMware NSX

Commercial

This ZenPack is developed and supported by Zenoss Inc. Commercial ZenPacks are available to Zenoss commercial customers only. Contact Zenoss to request more information regarding this or any other ZenPacks. Click here to view all available Zenoss Commercial ZenPacks.

Organization:

Zenoss, Inc.

Name:

ZenPacks.zenoss.NSX

Applications Monitored:

VMware NSX (6)

VMware NSX ZenPack

VMware NSX-T monitoring.

Releases

Version 2.0.1- Download: Released on 2023/12/21: Requires PythonCollector ZenPack, ZenPackLib ZenPack Compatible with Zenoss Resource Manager 6.7.0, and Zenoss Cloud

Version 2.0.0- Download: Released on 2021/10/21: Requires PythonCollector ZenPack, ZenPackLib ZenPack Compatible with Zenoss Resource Manager 6.5.0, 6.6.0, and Zenoss Cloud

Background

This ZenPack provides support for monitoring VMware NSX-T. Modeling and monitoring of devices placed in the /VMware/NSX device class is performed using the NSX-T API by executing queries and parsing the output.

Features

The NSX ZenPack provides:

  • Initial discovery and continual synchronization of relevant components.
  • Performance monitoring.
  • System event management.
  • Service impact and root cause analysis (Requires Zenoss Service Dynamics).
  • Collection of detailed configuration data, including NAT Rules, Routing Protocols, Load Balancer Configs, and Firewall Configs.
  • Service impact and root cause analysis (Requires Zenoss Service Dynamics).

Discovery

The following entities will be automatically discovered. The attributes and collections will be updated on Zenoss's normal remodeling interval which defaults to every 12 hours.

NSX-T Manager Nodes: Attributes: Fully Qualified Domain Name, Node ID, Status, Uptime

NSX-T Compute Managers: Attributes: Access Level to NSX, Service Account is Created, Description, Origin Type, Proxy HTTPS Port, OIDC Provider, Tags: Relations: NSX-T Virtual Switches

NSXT-T IP Pools: Attributes: Description, IP Release Delay, Tags

NSX-T Host Transport Nodes: Attributes: Description, Failure Domain, Maintenance Mode, IP Addresses, Transport Node ID, Display Name, IP Addresses, OS Type, OS Version: Relations: NSX-T Network Interfaces

NSX-T Edge Transport Nodes: Attributes: Description, Failure Domain, Maintenance Mode, IP Addresses, Transport Node ID, Display Name, IP Addresses, Deployment Type, Enable SSH, Hostname, Compute Folder in The Specified vCenter Server, Cluster or Resourcepool ID, Connected Distributed Portgroups or VLANs, Host ID, Manage Network, Storage, vCenter Server ID, CPU Count, Memory Allocation MB, vSphere Host ID: Relations: NSX-T Network Interfaces

NSX-T Transport Zones: Attributes: Host Switch ID, Host Switch Mode, Host Switch Name, Is Default, Nested NSX Environment, Transport Type, Tags: Relations: NSX-T Segments

NSX-T Network Interfaces: Attributes: Administration Status, Backing VNI by NSX, Connected Switch, Connected Switch Type, Driver name, Managed by the Host, Link Status, Interface Type, PCI device, Interface MTU, Status source: Relations: NSX-T Host Transport Node, NSX-T Edge Transport Node

NSX-T Tier0 Gateways: Attributes: ARP limit, Default Rule Logging, Description, DHCP configuration, Disable Firewall, Failover Mode, Force whitelisting, High-availability Mode, Internal Transit Subnets, IPv6 profiles configuration, Transit Subnets, Tags: Relations: NSX-T Tier1 Gateways, NSX-T Segments

NSX-T Tier1 Gateways: Attributes: ARP limit, Default Rule Logging, Description, DHCP configuration, Disable Firewall, Enable Standby Relocation, Failover Mode, Force whitelisting, IPv6 profiles configuration, Route Advertisement Types, Pool Allocation, Tags: Relations: NSX-T Tier0 Gateway, NSX-T Segments

NSX-T Segments: Attributes: Admin State, Description, DNS domain name, Evpn Segment Flag, Allocation MAC Pool, Replication Mode, Subnets, Tags, Segment Type, VLAN ids: Relations: NSX-T Tier0 Gateway, NSX-T Tier1 Gateway, NSX-T Transport Zone

NSX-T Firewall Rules: Attributes: Action, Description, Destination Groups, Negation of destination groups, Direction of Traffic, Is Disabled, IP Protocol, Is Default, Enable Packet Logging, Notes, Profiles, Policy Paths, Sequence number, Services, Source Group Paths, Negation of Source Groups, Domain ID, Policy ID, Policy Category, Firewall Rule ID

NSX-T VPN Services: Attributes: Description, Admin Status, Internet key exchange log level, IPSec HA Sync, Logical Router ID, Tags

NSX-T VNI Pools: Attributes: Description, Ranges, Tags

NSX-T Virtual Switches Attributes: ID of the virtual switch in compute manager, Discovered Nodes, Description, ID of the compute manager, Portgroup UUID, Tags, Uplink Port Names, Uplink portgroup Relations: NSX-T Compute Manager

Usage

The installation of this ZenPack will create the device class /VMware/NSX. This new device class will provide five new zProperties zNSXUsername, zNSXPassword, zNSXPort, zNSXSSL, and zNSXConcurrentHTTP

Add a NSX-T Device

The following procedure assumes that credentials have been set.

  • Select Infrastructure from the navigation bar.

  • Select Add a Single Device from the Add Device list of options. The Add a Single Device dialog appears.

  • Enter the following information in the dialog:

    Name Description
    Name or IP NSX host to model.
    Device Class /VMware/NSX
    Model Device Select this option unless adding a device with a user name and password
    different than found in the device class. If you do not select this option,
    then you must add the credentials (see) and then manually model the device.
    zNSXUsername NSX user with privileges to gather performance information
    zNSXPassword Password for the NSX User
    zNSXSSL Enable SSL for communication with NSX

  • Click Add.

System Event Monitoring

Monitoring plugin collects System Events from NSX-T Manager and shows them as Zenoss Events with the same time and severity.

Standard Zenoss Event Fields
  • device
  • component
  • summary
  • severity
  • eventClassKey (for mapping specific event types)
  • eventKey (for de-duplication and auto-clear fingerprinting)

Once the event is sent, it will not be sent again. If the user clears the event, it will not reappear again. There’s no automatic mechanism to clear system events, as they can not be cleared from NSX manager and do not have expire date, therefore the user is to close new events manually from Zenoss UI.

Installed Items

Installing this ZenPack will add the following items to your Zenoss system.

Configuration Properties
  • zNSXUsername
  • zNSXPassword
  • zNSXPort
  • zNSXSSL
  • zNSXConcurrentHTTP
Device Classes
  • /VMware/NSX
Modeler Plugins
  • zenoss.VMwareNSX
Monitoring Templates
  • NSXManager (in /VMware/NSX)
  • NSXManagerNode (in /VMware/NSX)
  • NSXTransportNode (in /VMware/NSX)
  • NSXTIPPool (in /VMware/NSX)
  • NSXNetworkInterface (in /VMware/NSX)
  • NSXTFirewallRule (in /VMware/NSX)

Monitoring Templates

NSXManager (in /VMware/NSX)
  • Data Points
    • control_cluster_status
    • mgmt_cluster_status
  • Graphs
    • None
NSXManagerNode (in /VMware/NSX)
  • Data Points
    • disk_space_total
    • disk_space_used
    • load_average_1_min
    • load_average_5_min
    • load_average_15_min
    • mem_total
    • mem_cache
    • mem_used
    • swap_total
    • swap_used
    • uptime
  • Graphs
    • Memory Usage
    • Storage Usage
    • System Load
    • Disk Swap

Note: disk_space_total and disk_space_used values may be different from the values in NSX UI. Zenoss takes these values from the NSX API, but NSX UI doesn't. NSX UI iterates though file_systems field and sums the total_space of each file system with some inaccuracy (NSX UI uses 1000 as base, not 1024, for converting kbytes to other units)

NSXTransportNode (in /VMware/NSX)
  • Data Points
    • disk_space_total
    • disk_space_used
    • load_average_1_min
    • load_average_5_min
    • load_average_15_min
    • mem_total
    • mem_cache
    • mem_used
    • swap_total
    • swap_used
    • avg_cpu_core_usage_dpdk
    • avg_cpu_core_usage_non_dpdk
  • Graphs
    • CPU Usage
    • Memory Usage
    • Storage Usage
    • System Load
    • Disk Swap
NSXTIPPool (in /VMware/NSX)
  • Data Points
    • allocated_ips
    • total_ips
  • Graphs
    • IP Pool Usage
NSXNetworkInterface (in /VMware/NSX)
  • Data Points
    • rx_bytes
    • rx_dropped
    • rx_errors
    • rx_frame
    • rx_packets
    • tx_bytes
    • tx_carrier
    • tx_colls
    • tx_dropped
    • tx_errors
    • tx_packets
  • Graphs
    • Total Bytes
    • Total Packets
    • Error Counts
    • Dropped Packets
NSXTFirewallRule (in /VMware/NSX)
  • Data Points
    • byte_count
    • hit_count
    • max_popularity_index
    • max_session_count
    • packet_count
    • popularity_index
    • session_count
    • total_session_count
  • Graphs
    • Packet Count
    • Bytes Count
    • Sessions

Daemons
Type Name
Modeler zenmodeler
Performance Collector zenpython

Changes

2.0.1
  • Update NSX client (ZPS-8714)
  • Tested with Zenoss Resource Manager 6.7.0, Zenoss Cloud and Service Impact 5.6.0.
2.0.0
  • Add Support for NSX-T
  • Tested with Zenoss Resource Manager 6.5.0, 6.6.0, Zenoss Cloud and Service Impact 5.5.3.
1.2.1
  • Fixed traceback when modeling edge firewall rules. (ZPS-508)
1.2.0
  • Add zNSXConcurrentHTTP zProperty to limit maximum number of simultaneous http connections allowed per NSX manager.
  • Add configuration check for openstack_neutron_integration. (OSI 2.1.1)
  • Fixed metric collection stopping for all Edge and Interfaces if one or more edge vm is powered off. (ZEN-19008)
  • Fixed invalid dictionary for event messages when NSX edge is powered off. (ZEN-19009)
  • Fixed NSX devices failing to collect when there is a 5.x edge device. (ZEN-21660)
  • Fixed TypeError on Edge components. (ZEN-22734)
  • Added modeling and usage monitoring for IP Pools and Segment ID Pools. (ZEN-22189)
  • Link NSX Edge components to vSphere VMs (requires vSphere ZP).
  • Added modeling and monitoring for Edge Firewall Rules for each Edge.
  • Added modeling and monitoring for NSX Subinterfaces
  • Added monitoring for connection state to vCenter (requires vSphere ZP).
  • Added modeling for Routing Protocols.
  • Added modeling for NAT Rules.
  • Added load balancer modeling and monitoring.
1.0.1
  • Fixed traceback during modeling NSX Manager device if one or more Edges is powered off. (ZEN-18984)
1.0.0
  • Initial release

Attachments: