LogicMonitor’s VMware NSX-T monitoring package leverages the VMware NSX-T Data Center API to monitor and alert on metrics for clusters, cluster managers/controllers, edges, firewalls, load balancers, and other virtualized NSX-T networking components.

Compatibility

As of January 2022, LogicMonitor’s VMware NSX-T package is compatible with NSX-T API versions 2.4 – 3.2.

Note: This monitoring package may work with earlier versions of the NSX-T API, but has not yet been tested. Due to changes in the structure of the NSX-T cluster between major versions, users running API versions 2.x might be unable to collect data for some datapoints on some datasources. See VMware NSX-T API documentation.

As VMware releases newer versions of VMware NSX-T, LogicMonitor will test and extend coverage as necessary.

Setup Requirements

Add resources into monitoring

Add your VMware NSX-T cluster host into monitoring. For more information on adding resources into monitoring, see Adding Devices.

Obtain credentials

LogicMonitor uses basic authentication to query the NSX-T API and must provide the appropriate credentials to access the NSX-T resource’s data. The NSX-T cluster Manager requires port 443/TCP to be open between host and collector for REST API requests. These credentials must belong to a user account that has been assigned the following minimum permissions:

Role	Description
Read-only	All API calls made in this package are compatible with read-only access.

Refer to VMware NSX-T documentation for additional information on configuring users and roles.

Assign properties to resources

The following custom properties must be set on the VMware NSX-T resource within LogicMonitor. For more information, see Resource and Instance Properties.

Property	Value
nsx.api.user	REST API username.
nsx.api.pass	REST API password.
system.category	VMware_NSX-T will be automatically added by the PropertySource addCategory_VMware_NSXT.

Import LogicModules

From the LogicMonitor public repository, import all VMware NSX-T LogicModules, which are listed in the LogicModules in Package section of this support article. If these LogicModules are already present, make sure you have the most recent versions.

Once the LogicModules are imported (assuming all previous setup requirements have been met), data collection will automatically commence.​

Considerations

When monitoring NSX-T devices, some aggregated statistics are limited by the API for how often they update. For this reason, we do not recommend customizing the data collection interval lower than the default configuration.

Troubleshooting

If there is an error, the DataSources will print the error messages to the console. You can see these errors in the output (from the Raw Data tab that displays from the Resources page for each DataSource) when manually polling data. When errors occur, the DataSources will still attempt to collect available data.

LogicModules in Package

LogicMonitor’s package for VMware NSX-T consists of the following LogicModules. For full coverage, make sure that all of these LogicModules are imported into your LogicMonitor platform.

Display Name	Type	Description
addCategory_VMware_NSXT	PropertySource	Checks for working credentials for VMware NSX-T. Requires the properties nsx.api.user & nsx.api.pass.
addERI_VMware_NSXT	PropertySource	Sets ERI using data from the VMware NSX-T API
NSXT Cluster Controller Node File System	DataSource	File system usage of each cluster node.
NSXT Cluster Manager Node File System	DataSource	File system usage of each cluster manager node.
NSXT Cluster Nodes	DataSource	CPU and Memory of each cluster node.
NSXT Cluster Nodes Network Status	DataSource	Displays interface statistics for transmitted and received packets.
NSXT Edge Clusters	DataSource	Status information for NSX-T edge clusters.
NSXT Firewall	DataSource	Firewall usage statistics per firewall section.
NSXT Firewall Logical Router Ports	DataSource	Firewall statistics for individual logical router ports.
NSXT IP Pools	DataSource	IP Pool usage metrics.
NSXT Latest Backups	DataSource	Status of the most recent backups for cluster, node, and inventory.
NSXT Load Balancer Pools	DataSource	Current operational status and transmission statistics for load balancer pools.
NSXT Load Balancer Services	DataSource	Current operational status and transmission statistics for load balancer services.
NSXT Load Balancer Virtual Servers	DataSource	Current operational status and transmission statistics for load balancer virtual servers.
NSXT Logical Routers	DataSource	High availability information for Logical Routers.
NSXT Logical Routers BGP	DataSource	Status for Tier 0 BGP neighbors.
NSXT Management Cluster Status	DataSource	Status information for NSX-T control and management roles.
NSXT Transport Node File System	DataSource	File system usage of each transport node.
NSXT Transport Nodes	DataSource	CPU and Memory of each transport node.
NSXT Transport Zones	DataSource	Monitors logical switch information for each transport zone.
VMware_NSXT_Topology	TopologySource	Maps VMware NSX-T topologies.

When setting static datapoint thresholds on the various metrics tracked by this package’s DataSources, LogicMonitor follows the technology owner’s best practice KPI recommendations. If necessary, we encourage you to adjust these predefined thresholds to meet the unique needs of your environment. For more information on tuning datapoint thresholds, see Tuning Static Thresholds for Datapoints.