To onboard such an appliance to Axoflow, complete the generic appliance onboarding steps.
Configure your NSX appliances, NSX Edges, and hypervisors to send their logs to the Syslog (autodetect and classify) connector of an AxoRouter instance. Use either:
- The TCP protocol (port 601 when using the default connector), or
- TLS-encrypted TCP protocol (port 6514 when using the default connector)
For details on configuring NSX, see Configure Remote Logging in the NSX Administration Guide.
Labels
Axoflow automatically adds the following labels to data collected from this source:
| label | value |
|---|---|
| vendor | broadcom |
| product | nsx |
Sending data to Splunk
When sending the data collected from this source to Splunk, Axoflow uses the following sourcetype and index settings:
| sourcetype | index |
|---|---|
| vmware:nsxlog:dfwpktlogs | netfw |
| vmware:nsxlog:firewall-pktlog | netfw |
| vmware:nsxlog:nsx | infraops |
| vmware:nsxlog:nsxv | infraops |
Earlier name/vendor
- VMware NSX
- NSX-T Data Center