On an ESXi host prepared for NSX-T, we see log entries: "root ruleset is empty" and "failed to find anchor rule"

Products

• VMware NSX Networking

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• On the ESXi host, we see multiple log entries in the log file /var/run/log/vmkernel.log, as below:

2023-08-14T12:51:16.678Z cpu5:2102684)root ruleset is empty
2023-08-14T12:51:16.678Z cpu5:2102684)failed to find anchor rule

• You have Service insertion (SI) filters enabled.

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center

Cause

This log spew issue is observed when SI filter is created and occurs when there's a delay when pushing the configuration, whish leads to flood of logs entries.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in NSX-T Data Center 3.2.3 available at VMware downloads.