Federated Environments No Longer Show NSX Global Rules

Products

• VCF Operations for Networks

Issue/Introduction

• NSX Global objects are no longer showing in the Aria Operations for Networks dashboards
  
  

Environment

VCF Operations for Networks 6.13

VCF Operations for Networks 6.14

VCF Operations for Networks 6.14.1

VMware NSX 

Cause

• In releases prior to 6.11, Aria Operations for Networks had support for the NSX manager API. In federated environments, this provided global as well as local objects without distinction. This API is currently deprecated by NSX, and will be removed in the future.
• The new policy API that Aria Operations for Networks now favors has clear separation between local and global objects, and they are collected and processed separately by Aria Operations for Networks. In this process, support for global objects is included only for those licenses that provide NSX federation as a feature.

Resolution

For visibility into global rules, you must purchase a VCF license that includes all Aria Operations for Networks features.

If you believe you have encountered this issue and are unable to purchase an appropriate VCF license, please open a support case with Broadcom Support and refer to this KB article.
For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.

 

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
Global Rules will no longer show in dashboards or be associated with flows. Customers cannot make alerts or check stats of global rules.