Node profile settings mismatch alarm generated for NSX Edge nodes.

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• In NSX UI --> System --> Fabric --> Profiles --> Node Profiles, you can see the NTP servers, Syslog servers, etc. are configured.
• When you run the commands "get ntp-server" and "get logging-servers" directly on the edge nodes, they show the NTP servers, Syslog servers, etc. that are configured in node profiles.
• Central config is enabled on the edge nodes. This can be confirmed by running the command "get node central-config".
• However, as shown in the below screenshot, NSX UI generates critical alarm for node profile settings mismatch on edge nodes:
  
  

• Clicking on "Mismatch" --> "Resolve Sync Error" does resolve the alarm for a few minutes, but it will trigger again later:
  
  

Environment

NSX-T Data Center 3.2.3 and earlier
NSX 4.1.0 and earlier

Cause

This is a false positive.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in VMware NSX 3.2.4
This issue is resolved in VMware NSX 4.1.1
This issue is resolved in VMware NSX 4.2.0