Troubleshoot Distributed Firewall Issues

You are experiencing connectivity issues with a virtual machine and want to view the list of distributed firewall rules applied to the virtual machine to see if traffic is being blocked by the distributed firewall.

Problem

You are experiencing connectivity issues with a virtual machine, particularly when using certain ports.

Cause

The distributed firewall may be blocking traffic across certain ports on the virtual machine.

Prerequisites

You have installed the VMware NSX 6.2 system in your environment.

Solution

1. In the NSX-vSphere Troubleshooting dashboard, in the Objects widget, select a virtual machine.
2. In the Data Collection Results widget, select Get distributed firewall statistics from the Choose Action drop-down menu, and click Run Action.
   The distributed firewall rules applied to the virtual machine are displayed in the Data Collection Results widget.