TN Flow Exp Disconnected alarm observed on DPUs.

Products

• VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention
• VMware vDefend Network Detection and Response

Issue/Introduction

TN Flow Exp Disconnected alarm observed on DPUs.


Symptoms:
There is no connection from DPUs to any of the brokers. 
NSX intelligence specific config gets pushed to smart NIC.As there is no connectivity from DPUs to NSX intelligence, flow export fails and alarm is generated.

Environment

4.1.x, 4.2.x, 9.x

Cause

NSX intelligence specific config gets pushed to smart NIC. As there is no connectivity from DPUs to NSX intelligence, flow export fails and alarm is generated.

Note :  Intelligence is not supported with SmartNIC as of today's date.

Resolution

Workaround ;
Resolve the alarm on NSX Manager UI.

Additional Information

Relevant log’s location 
nsx-syslog.log for dpu on ESX.