Welcome back techies. This is going to be the short one. This article describes the steps to make an API call to NSX edge transport node vm to get the edge configuration. At the time of writing this blog, I had to collect this information to replace the faulty edge node vm in the env.

Here is the API call,
GET https://<nsx-manager-IP>/api/v1/transport-nodes/tn-id .

Replace nsx manager ip and tn-id with your edge vm id in nsx env.

https://172.16.31.129/api/v1/transport-nodes/e55b9c84-7449-477a-be42-d20d6037c089

To get the “tn-id” for existing faulty edge, login to NSX > System> Nodes and select existing faulty edge

You should see ID on the right side,

If NSX UI is not available for any reason, ssh to nsx-t manager using admin credentials and run following command to capture the UUID / Node ID

get nodes

This is how the API call and output looks like,

Send the API call to get the output shown in the body. This output contains entire configuration of the edge vm in script format.

That’s all for this post. Thank You.

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