The On Demand Support capability in NSX that executes built-in runbooks (for instance BgpNeighborState or EdgeRouting) one step at a time, finishing each with a report and artefacts to inspect or export.
Also called Online Diagnostic System.
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Each book explains ODS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Capability
Something that a person, organisation or system is able to do.
- NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
- EdgeRouting
Diagnostic runbook from NSX ODS. Feed it a logical router together with two IP addresses and it checks how healthy Edge routing is, reads the RIB, FIB and ARP entries, and then pings and traces the path.
Related terms
- FIB
Forwarding information base: the lookup table an NSX Edge compiles from its RIB. It is one of the things the EdgeRouting ODS runbook examines, and VCF Operations for networks harvests the Edge routes held in it.
- RIB
Table where a router keeps the routes it has learned, used to build the forwarding information base (FIB). The EdgeRouting runbook in NSX ODS examines a logical router's RIB, FIB and ARP entries.