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jpaganVoyager
asked in Intelligent Operations
Playbook help

Hello, I am looking for a way to automate the addition of a category for a DR Protection Policy.  I want the playbook to look for the categories of Production and Mission Critical for a VM.  If those two categories are present, I then want to add the category of DisasterRecoveryEnabled.  Thank you,Joe

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mariakalendarovaAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
Automating VM memory overcommit and category enforcement in Self-Service

Hi Community,We are working on enhancing our automation flows in Nutanix Self-Service blueprints and would like some guidance on the best way to approach two things:Enable memory overcommit automatically for every VM deployed from a blueprint: Our goal is that VMs should always have this applied at deployment time without requiring manual adjustment later. Ensure category assignment is mandatory for deployed VMs: We would like to implement a check so that if a VM doesn’t have a category assigned during creation, the workflow requires a category before it can proceed. Is there a preferable script type or approach for implementing these checks and automations within Self-Service? Any suggestions on best practices - especially regarding script selection - would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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fredleungExplorer
asked in Self-Service
Question of service insertion for Nutanix and PA VM-Series (Flow & Micro Segmentation)

Dear Sir/Madam, I have built-up a lab for Nutanix & PA for flow & micro-segmentation test.After created a bluepoint and deploy the PA NVFs VM success, but I can’t find and don’t know how to set rule for app-tier to app-tier and redirect through a service chain in “Security Policy”. Please advise Environment:Nutanix CE, AHV 10, AOS 7, PC 2024.3.1, FNS NG 4.2, Network Controller 5 and enabled Micro-segmentation...etc. 

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ndasVoyager
asked in Intelligent Operations
Can't add back cluster to Prism Central

I have un-register 2 cluster from prism central by following command.ncli multicluster remove-prism-element cluster-id=<cluster UUID>Now I want add back those 2 cluster again to the same prism central but can’t add it back.Getting following error.“The cluster is blacklisted for further registration”How can I unblock and back it back. Thanks in advance.

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mariakalendarovaAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
How to launch a Blueprint without project association and making Category selection mandatory

Hi everyone, In our environment, we want everyone (not just members of a specific project) to be able to launch a given blueprint when needed. Right now, blueprints appear to require being tied to a project, which limits visibility and use. Is there a way to make a blueprint globally accessible to all users/groups without restricting it to one project? Or assign the blueprint to multiple projects?Also, we’d like to enforce category assignment as part of the VM creation process. Ideally, users should be required to select or fill in a category value before deploying a VM. Can this be achieved somehow?Thanks in advance! 

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mariakalendarovaAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
Projects Limit

Hi everyone, I am trying to figure out a way to import projects into Prism. I got stuck when I read there is a limit for projects number based on the environment, with a maximum of 500 projects. Is there a way to have more than 500, specifically almost a 1000 and will probably be growing? Any advice here will be appreciated! 

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Duong QuocVoyager
asked in Self-Service
Can NCM Set VM Expiration Automatically?

Hello everyone,I would like to know if Nutanix NCM Self-Service supports a feature that allows setting a VM expiration option during the VM or blueprint creation request, enabling the VM to expire after a specified time interval automatically. Or if it does not support, can we schedule it on Day-2 Operation features? Thank you!

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EviatarTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Macro for prism central in self-service

HeyIn Calm (Script that I have in old lab, AOS v6.5) My script (part in blueprint) use REST API and ip is used as localhost: Now, In self-Service not accepted localhost (security reasoning).In Self-Service Administration and Operations Guide I see some script that use @@{pc_ip}@@ but this is not real variable.Is there any alternative to get the Prism Central IP and use it in my script? since I use the same script in many PC, It not good practice to hard coded the IP..alternatively: is there a way to get the cluster list (instead use API)? Thanks

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Ranjit KolluScout
asked in Security Central
How to login to Nutanix Prism central using LDAP credentials via Prism central API ?.

I would like to login to Prism central using an API and with LDAP credentials. I have already setup an authentication provider for my OpenLDAP server in Prism Central. 

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mariakalendarovaAdventurer
asked in Cost Governance
Consumption billing and reports

Hey everyone,I’m wondering if there is a built-in tool in Nutanix for on-premises environment that allows tracking of resource consumption — something that can act like a virtual currency or internal billing system based on usage (e.g., vCPU, memory, storage). Ideally, we’re looking for a way to generate reports that show per-project or per-VM consumption over time. I’ve thought of Cost Governance, but I think it’s only for cloud setups and I’m not aware of all its capabilities.Does Nutanix offer anything natively for this, or is this something that would require integration with an external tool?Thanks in advance!

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JackRosenthal
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JackRosenthalNutanix Employee
asked in Intelligent Operations
Invite to participate in Research: Nutanix Cloud Manager in NC

Hello from the User Experience Research team here at Nutanix again! I am reaching out to invite you to an exciting research opportunity happening right before .NEXT! For this projects, we are evaluating NCM Inventory a new multi account, multi provider view of all entities in your IT environment (via Nutanix Central). Our goal is to explore the experience of improved filtering, saving page contexts, inventory summaries to best understand what data metrics you want in your infrastructure.  If you are interested in participating the details can be found below. Details1:1 Virtual sessions will be conducted between 4/21/25 and 5/05/25 Sessions will be 45-60 minutes Who is ideal for this project?Experience using either Intelligent Operations, Self Service (found in NCM) A hybrid environment (Ex. public/private); ideally with more than one provider (ex. AWS, GCP) Ideally some experience with Cost Governance, or Security Central (found in NCM)Participants can sign up by using the Calendly lin

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JackRosenthal
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Eason FangVoyager
asked in Self-Service
Nutanix network setting problem

Hi sir I have three devices. Model is NX-1175S-G8The networks of the three NXs will be connected to a 10G switch.This 10G switch will be connected to a 1G switch.Each NX is connected to the switch with two network cables.The function is to use NCM. However, after setting up more than 30 VMs, the network will be disconnected seriously. It is found that it will be stuck on the 10G switch. However, if the port connected to NX is limited to 1G, it will work normally.But the device will send out a warning message.CVM not uplinked to 10GbE NICIt was detected that the Nutanix packets were very large, causing the 10G switch to be unable to handle the load.(about 1.61Gbps)Because there is only one line going up to the 1G switchI have tried another brand of 10G switch, but the problem is the same.If the 10G switch and the 1G switch do not use lacpHow can I adjust the Nutanix network?Thanks ​​​​​​   Network traffic    

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NicolasHernandezVExplorer
asked in Intelligent Operations
Playbook execution skipped as trigger is not visible to execution user.

Hi, I created a playbook to send me a mail when a no admin user power on a virtual machine, but when I login with that user the playbook fails with this message Playbook execution skipped as trigger is not visible to execution user.Can anyone help to identify which action I am missing?I already create a rol with these actions, but the error is the same.Action Trigger Type1 OperationView Action Trigger TypeAHV VM8 OperationsAccess Console Virtual MachineAllow Virtual Machine Power OffAllow Virtual Machine Power OnAllow Virtual Machine RebootPower On Virtual MachineUpdate Virtual Machine Power StateView Existing Virtual MachineView Virtual MachineAlert Email Config1 OperationView Alert Email ConfigCategory3 OperationsView CategoryView Name CategoryView Value CategoryEvent1 OperationView EventPlaybook2 OperationsExecute PlaybookView PlaybookPolicy Event1 OperationView Policy EventUser2 OperationsImpersonate UserView UserUser Group1 OperationView User Group

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Fred FVoyager
asked in Self-Service
Ansible Automation Platform Integration in Self Service

Hi!I’m looking for an out of the box integration of AAP to import/install in the Self Service, to get inventories, credentials, job templates, … from our AAP, to be able to launch job templates from Self Service (and retrieve the result of jobs :)). This way I can automate some tasks, like post-provisioning tasks after VM deployment or some day2 actions.Regards,Fred

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MarvinBAdventurer
asked in Intelligent Operations
Have a cloned VM inherit the assigned categories

We have a subset of VMs that a group of users needs readonly and console access.  This is not difficult with RBAC using categories.  However, when we clone these systems for testing  or new deployment, the assigned categories don’t get inherited from the source VM.  Since we do this often,  this is a management headache.Is this standard behavior?  If so, any ideas on how to do this easily? I was hoping projects might be helpful, but I can’t find much useful documentation or examples to guide me.

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johanneskAdventurer
asked in Intelligent Operations
VM Categories management

We have created playbook to categorize VM to align with backup configuration in Veeam, grouping by Cluster,Environment and such. I noticed that a category can have more than one value. A VM can potentially have both Testing and Production value for the builtin ‘Environment’ category.Could it be alerted somehow if a VM has two values for a category? And similarly is there a way to catch a VM that does not have any category? Regards,Jóhannes

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johanneskAdventurer
asked in Intelligent Operations
Mulitple actions in playbook

Hi I using playbook to categorize vm’s according to cluster,os,sla and such. It’s working, but I want to see if it’s possible to assign a category based on two or more conditions. I’m only able to use the ‘branch’ to evaluate one condition. Is it possible to do AND when evaluating if a vm is assigned to a category?

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AvicoTrailblazer
posted in Self-Service
My New Blog Site

Hey Guys,Just wanted to let you know that I have a new blog site, dedicated to self-service.Hope you’ll find it helpful and interesting. You are welcome to subscribe and support it 😀nutanixcalm.wordpress.comThank you and see you there!Avi

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Aleim27
posted in Intelligent Operations
How to solve - If Prism Central Root Partition usage exceeds 95%

Run the health check ncc health_checks system_checks pcvm_disk_usage_checkand if fails check if var/spool/maildrop is not the culprit. Ideally this logs should get cleared by itself. howver there is a limitiation in PC versions older than 2023.3.runallssh ‘df -i /’  (this will show you info about the mount points)runallssh 'sudo du --inode /var/spool/postfix/maildrop’  (this will show you the utilization in kbs)now run the below command will clear the logs, but try on your own risk as it needs to be done with nutanix supportallssh 'sudo postsuper -d ALL maildrop' thanks     

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RC3411Voyager
asked in Intelligent Operations
EXPORTING CLUSTER CERTIFICATES

Hello and thank you.Can anyone provide command lines or script that I can use to export ssl certificates from Prism Central and Prism Element clusters AOS 6.10 and 6.8.0.1? 

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AngeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Nutanix Cloud Services vs AWS

Hello Community,Hope you are doing well.I would like to know if these following AWS Services have their equivalents in Nutanix Private Cloud : Amazon Simple Notification Service : allows developers to send messages to many subscribers through communication channels such as email, SMS (text messages), mobile push notifications, and HTTP/HTTPS endpoints. Amazon Simple Queue Service : Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) lets you send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. Amazon Data Firehose : provides the easiest way to acquire, transform, and deliver data streams within seconds to data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics services.  AWS Lambda : serverless compute service for running code without having to provision or manage servers AWS API Gateway :  fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to publish, maintain, monitor, secure, and operate APIs at any scale Amaz

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Binbin-DellAdventurer
asked in Intelligent Operations
Does Nutanix Prism Central Support Adding Vendor App as a plugin?

Can Prism Central support like Vender provides  an app -  https://monitoring-tool.com which will internally call Prism Central API to monitor clusters?

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JeroenTielen
Aleim27
Aleim27
asked in Intelligent Operations
Prism Central Pre-Upgrade check stuck at 30%

Prism Central Pre-Upgrade check stuck at 30%Followed the given Steps to kill the running, hung, stuck task(s) Step 1: SSH to any Nutanix CVM of the Nutanix cluster ( Nutanix CVM default credentials )Step 2: Get the running / stuck / hung task(s) listcvm$ progress_monitor_cli --fetchallOutput would be like this:    ================== Proto Start =========================    logical_timestamp: 10    progress_info_id {      operation: kDownload      entity_type: kPackage      entity_id: "xx.xx.tar.gz"    }    title_message: "Software Upload" ----> This is My Stuck / Hung task    start_time_secs: 1087597349    progress_task_list {      component: kPrism      task_tag: "xx.xx.tar.gz"      start_time_secs: 1087597349      percentage_complete: 10      progress_status: kRunning    }    =================== Proto End ==========================now you have to collect following info from above command output.operation entity_type entity_idStep 3: Now kill the stuck / hung task using following c

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LeonardThngNutanix Employee
asked in Intelligent Operations
Recommended configuration for rsyslog server in PE and PC

IHAC who has configured splunk as their remote syslog server. They have also configured “Audit” module for both PE and PC. To test the logging, they are able to see events such as VMs powered off and on in splunk. But they are not able to gather any information on events such as user accounts creation / deletion, as we tried to create some local accounts in PE and PC to test. Do they need to configure anything else to capture such events?

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JackRosenthal
Nutanix Employee
JackRosenthalNutanix Employee
posted in Intelligent Operations
Research Request: Nutanix Cloud Manager Quality Survey

Hello form the User Experience Research team at Nutanix!The team is once again asking for your feedback on our products.  This time we are interested in hearing your thoughts about Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) so better understand how to make improvements to Intelligent Operations, Self Service, Cost Governance, and Security Central.   This survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete but will go a long way in helping us focus on what is important to YOU! If you are interested in making your voice hear, you use the link below to fill out the survey and if there are any additions you were able to share in the survey, please share in this post!https://nutanixpoc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GkwLl6Vt75Gfu6

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JackRosenthal
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