• Logical Switches (LS)
• Distributed Logical Router (DLR)
• Distributed Firewall (DFW)
• Edge Services Gateway (ESG)

• Commands getting data from NSX Manager
  • show logical-switch list [subcommand] [arguments]
  • show logical-router list [subcommand] [arguments]
• Commands getting data from Controller
  • show logical-switch controller controller-id [subcommand] [arguments]
  • show logical-switch controller master vni vni [subcommand] [arguments]
    • only valid for commands with vni is specified
  • show logical-router controller controller-id [subcommand] [arguments]
  • show logical-router controller master dlr edge-id [subcommand] [arguments]
    • only valid for commands with edge-id is specified
• Commands getting data from ESX host
  • show logical-switch host host-id [subcommand] [arguments]
  • show logical-router host host-id [subcommand] [arguments]

> show logical-switch list all

> show controller list all

> show logical-switch list all

> show logical-switch list vni 5000 host

Use cases:

• Troubleshooting Host and NSX manager command channel for VxLAN and DLR CLI
• VxLAN communication between ESX hosts are not working
• Compare vtep, mac, arp tables from hosts and controllers
• Show logical switch packet statistics from hosts and controllers
• Show DLR all instances and connected hosts
• Check DLR instance and LIF exists on the host
• Troubleshooting DLR routing issues
• Show DLR vMAC and pMAC
• Troubleshooting DLR bridge issues
• Show DLR package statistics

• User need not remember and login to different controller and host endpoints to troubleshooting the distributed network.
• Using centralized CLI, NSX Manager Admin can show information from any of NSX Manager database, controllers or ESX hosts.
• User need not remember the master controllers for different logical switches/routers.
• When retrieving logical switch information for a specified VNI, centralized CLI can compute the master controller IP according to the VNI without the need of controller IP input by the user
• When retrieving logical router information for a specified logical router instance, centralize CLI can compute the master controller IP according to the edge id of the logical router without the need of controller IP input by the user
• User can reuse command history across different hosts
• To show the same information from different host, e.g. host-I and host-2, user only need change the host-id instead of inputting the same command in another terminal
  >show logical-switch host host-I vni 5000 vtep
  >show logical-switch host host-2 vni 5000 vtep

• Validate whether VxLAN and DLR communication between host and NSX Manager is working.
  >show logical-switch host host-id verbose
  If communication channel is broken, all show logical-switch/logical-router commands will stop working.
   
• If VxLAN and DLR channel is broken, check host name or host IP
  >show host host-id

Show DLR all instances and connected hosts

• Check all DLR instances in NSX Manager inventory
  >show logical-router list all
   
• Check DLR connected host
  >show logical-router list dlr edge-id host

Check DLR instance and LIF exists on the host

• Check DLR instances exist
  >show logical-router host host-id dlr all verbose
  >show logical-router host host-id dlr all brief
   
• Check LIF exists
  >show logical-router hosts host-id dlr edge-id interface all verbose
  >show logical-router hosts host-id dlr edge-id interface all brief

Troubleshooting DLR routing issue

• Check DLR routes and interfaces on the host
  >show logical-router host host-id dlr edge-id route
  >show logical-router host host-id dlr edge-id interface all verbose
   
• Check DLR arps and on the host
  >show logical-router host host-id dlr edge-id arp
   
• Check DLR instances configuration on the host
  >show logical-router host host-id config-by-vsm
   
• Check DLR runnable parameters on host
  >show logical-router host host-id dlr edge-id tunable
   
• Check routes and interfaces on the controller
  >show logical-router controller master dlr edge-id route
  >show logical-router controller master dlr edge-id interface
  >show logical-router controller master dlr edge-id interface <interface-name>

Show DLR vMAC and pMAC

• If you login to a special host, use ESX net-vdr command
  >net-vdr -C -l
   
• Using centralize CLI
  >show logical-router host host-id connection

Fro more information and complete list of support commands, see NSX Command Line Interface Reference