If you’re using NSX Manager 6.1.x (mine is 6.1.4) and you try to add an LDAP domain you might encounter the following error:
A quick Google search and you realise this is a known bug affecting 6.1.x
https://www.vmware.com/support/nsx/doc/releasenotes_nsx_vsphere_620.html
Really VMware? #facepalm Pretty annoying to be honest, this seems a pretty basic functionality that should have been tested by the QA team – cough – QA what ? cough.
Anyway, as I’m preparing for my VCIX-NV I haven’t got much time to “waste” and decided to do it via REST call.
So using the official API documentation I found there is this updateDomain API call
Well, I’m going to keep this post short and straightfoward: the following xml code provided in the documentation is wrong!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <DirectoryDomain> <name>corp.local</name> <type>ActiveDirectory</type> <netbiosName>CORP</netbiosName> <username>Administrator</username> <password>VMWare1!</password> </DirectoryDomain>
if you try to execute a POST (using your favouring REST client, Postman for me) you’ll get a nice 404 error
After some playing and guessing the code that worked for me was the following
<DirectoryDomain> <name>corp.local</name> <type>ACTIVE_DIRECTORY</type> <netbiosName>CORP</netbiosName> <username>Administrator</username> <password>VMWare1!</password> </DirectoryDomain>
Also the POST address with didn’t work for me and I had to use https://<NSX-Manager>/api/1.0/directory/updateDomain
And here we go the domain is then visible from the GUI, after which I could update it without problems.
Nice job VMware!
