NAPP Automation Appliance Network Config Pre-check Failed

Products

• VMware vDefend Firewall
• VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention

Issue/Introduction

NAPP Automation Appliance Network Config pre-check failed. This issue can occur in all versions of NAPP Automation Appliance. 

NAPP Automation Appliance UI shows IP Address Config Error.

Example:

IP Address Config Error: path '/CDT-vCloud/network/seg-NAPP-Workload-011' resolves to multiple networks. you can fix this issue by moving the portgroups to different folders or use different names

Environment

All NAPP Automation Appliance versions

Cause

NAPP Automation Appliance cannot differentiate the portgroups/segments with the same names under different distributed switches.

SSH into NAPP Automation Appliance VM, /var/log/napp-automation/napp-deploy.log will show the following IP Address Config Error error, example:

{"function":"GetNetwork","level":"debug","msg":"Failed to fetch the network inventory path for the network seg-NAPP-Workload-011","time":"2024-10-22T10:00:53Z"}
{"function":"CheckNetworkConfig","level":"warning","msg":"path '/CDT-vCloud/network/seg-NAPP-Workload-011' resolves to multiple networks. you can fix this issue by moving the portgroups to different folders or use different names","time":"2024-10-22T10:00:53Z"}

Resolution

Move the portgroups/segments to a new folder/Move distributed switch to a new folder in case NSX segments OR use unique portgroup/segment name across all the distributed switches.