Monitoring NSX using NSX Dashboard

In this recipe we will explore how to use the built-in NSX dashboard to monitor your NSX environment. The dashboard provides an overall health overview of your NSX environment. Each release of NSX will provide additional reporting in the dashboard. The preceding list was accurate at the time of writing this book.

Getting ready

You should have the following completed at a minimum before proceeding with the remainder of this recipe:

• NSX Manager deployed
• NSX Manager registered with vCenter Server and the Platform Services Controller
• Access to NSX via the vSphere Web Client

How to do it...

The following steps show how to utilize the NSX Dashboard for monitoring:

1. From the vSphere Web Client, navigate toHome|Networking & Security| Dashboard:

2. The System Overview section has the subsections NSX Manager and Controller Nodes. You can click on the icon beside NSX Manager to see the component status and disk usage of NSX Manager:

3. The icon next to Controller Nodes will show...