Resynchronization commands for NSX-T Local and Global Managers

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• Purpose of this document is to distinguish the list of resync command between GM and LM so that indexing issue can be avoided.
• No configuration details on the Global Manger although can see the pushed configuration on the Local Managers.
  
  • Following error is seen in the NSX UI:
    
    
• Due to the sync issue there are no segments seen in GM UI.
  
  

Environment

VMware NSX-T

Cause

Re-sync commands of the Local Manager should not be on the Global Manager.

Resolution

Resync command and its attributes:

nsxmgr-01> start search resync <option>

• manager                - Full re-sync for search data store used by NSX Manager
• policy                 - Full re-sync for search data store used by Policy
• csm                        - Full re-sync for search data store used by CSM
• global-manager  - Full re-sync for search data store used by global-manager
• inventory            - Full re-sync for search data store used by Inventory
• idps-reporting  - Full re-sync for search data store used by idps-reporting
• telemetry            - Full re-sync for search data store used by telemetry
• all                   - Full re-sync for search data store for all services

List of supported arguments on GM

• manager                - Full re-sync for search data store used by NSX Manager
• global-manager  - Full re-sync for search data store used by global-manager
• inventory            - Full re-sync for search data store used by Inventory
• telemetry            - Full re-sync for search data store used by telemetry
• all                       - Full re-sync for search data store for all services

 

List of supported arguments on LM

• manager                - Full re-sync for search data store used by NSX Manager
• policy                 - Full re-sync for search data store used by Policy
• inventory            - Full re-sync for search data store used by Inventory
• idps-reporting  - Full re-sync for search data store used by idps-reporting
• telemetry            - Full re-sync for search data store used by telemetry
• all                        - Full re-sync for search data store for all services

 

Note: Unsupported command will be removed in version 3.2.3, 4.0.2 and 4.1.1

Workaround:

policy and idps-reporting Re-sync commands of the Local Manager should not be run on the Global Manager.
running "start search resync policy" on GM wipes of the policy configuration data. To resolve and restore Global Manager policy configuration data,
"start search resync global-manager/all" needs to be executed from the Global Manager.

• start search resync global-manager
• start search resync all

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:

If we run the unintended LM commands on the GM, then indexing of the GM DB may get corrupted or lost. This does not affect the data plane; however, unexpected UI behavior may occur, especially when viewing configuration details on the GM UI.

To fix the issue, the GM resync commands need to be executed.

• start search resync global-manager/all