Scripting - Resetting NSX-v objects

On various engagements I am involved with, I often need to produce some code to add or delete objects from NSX-v. These objects in general are things like IP Sets, MAC Sets, Security Groups, Security Tags, Services, Service Groups, Security Policies and even deleting the FW rulebase itself. Until recently I was doing this manually as I was dealing with relatively small numbers of objects, however on a previous engagement I was working on a script to import up to 33,000 objects and when testing the script in a dev environment, we needed a way to go through and delete everything we had just imported and set it back to “defaults”. ...

June 14, 2015 · 6 min