Enable history for the current session:

1admin@vcf-m01-cb01 [ ~ ]$ set -o history

Enable history on each login:

1admin@vcf-m01-cb01 [ ~ ]$ echo set -o history >> .bashrc

Updated 2025-03-03

When using Postman, or other API clients (Thunder Client), you can download all the API commands associated to them. Although the NSX collections are still using OpenAPI Spec v2, while Thunder Client only supports OpenAPI Spec v3+.

When creating a new virtual service (VS) using NSX ALB (Avi) 22.1.1 & 22.1.1-2p1 in vCenter write access mode, it's supposed to create new Service Engines (SE's) if needed, but in the case today, it just sat there.

Hovering over the red VS status showed "Maximum failed attempts to create Service Engine …

When browsing to the NSX-T Manager (3.1.3.x) interface, I see:

1Some appliance components are not functioning properly.
2Component health: MANAGER:UNKNOWN, SEARCH:UP, POLICY:UP, UI:UP, NODE_MGMT:UP.
3Error code: 101

vIDM is part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and you may have multiple instances depending on the number of VCF deployments.

In cases where the vIDM policy for network ranges is complex / limited, I found it efficient to use the vIDM API to push the same network ranges to all vIDM appliances. …

Applying a license to VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) version 21.1.3+ you may get an error:

failed Serial key decrytion failed. Failed to process serial key. SYSERR_LICENSE_DECRYPTION_FAILED Vmw error: NONE_FOUND