NSX ESXi Host Transport Nodes show Unknown Status

Products

• VMware NSX
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

In the NSX WebUI under System > Hosts > Clusters in the Status columns for Host(s) show as Unknown Status




ESXi host /var/run/log/nsx-syslog.log

<DATE> nsx-sha: NSX ####- [nsx@####comp="nsx-esx" subcomp="nsx-sha" username="root" level="WARNING" invalid="true"] Error in main Exception:[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/run/log/nsx-obsrv-stats-filedump'

Cause

netopad has insufficient nsx-sha permissions preventing status updates from being sent from host to NSX manager

Resolution

Place host into maintenance mode 

Run the following in cli -

esxcli system secpolicy domain set --level warning --name shaDom

/etc/init.d/netopad restart

esxcli system secpolicy domain set --level enforcing--name shaDom