Central Cli

Following on from my previous post in regards to getting the Central CLI API working after an upgrade to 6.2.3/6.2.4, it seems that a nice little enhancement has been made which should help verifying and troubleshooting DFW data plane issues. When looking at DFW filters and you wanted to view the contents of an address set, on the data plane you would issue the following command: vsipioctl getaddrsets -f filter-name And it would display the complete list of address sets for the particular filter. ...

When working on a customer site recently I was made aware that their system to use the NSX Central CLI via the API had stopped functioning. The system had stopped working when the upgrade to NSX 6.2.3 happened. Click here for my previous post on how to use the Central CLI API. When submitting the request, they would always get the following response: The resource identified by this request is only capable of generating responses with characteristics not acceptable according to the request "accept" headers. It turns out that there was a change made to the API, and an additional header is required to make it work with NSX 6.2.3 & 6.2.4. You now need to add the following to the existing headers: ...