Failure domain down alarm

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

The Failure Domain Down alarm is event triggered when the Edge has no connectivity with manager and controller 

Environment

VMware NSX

Resolution

Steps to resolve for 3.2.0 and higher

Recommended Actions:

1. On the Edge node identified by {transport_node_id}, check the connectivity to the management and control planes by invoking the NSX CLI commands `get managers` and `get controllers`.
2. Invoke the NSX CLI command `get interface eth0` to check the management interface status.
3. Invoke the NSX CLI command `get services` to check the core services status like dataplane/local-controller/nestdb/router, etc.
4. Inspect the /var/log/syslog file to find the messages related to manager/controller connectivity.
5. Reboot the Edge node.

Maintenance window required for remediation? Yes

Additional Information

Similar issues:

"Failure Domain Down" alarm is reported even though edge node is healthy

 

If you need to file a Broadcom support request, be sure to include the output of the commands noted in the Resolution section of this article.