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VMware on AWS - How to restore NSX DFW firewall rules to previous state

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Customers who uses NSX day-in, day-out would like to have a point-in time restore functionality of DFW firewall rules. Many customer have a large footprints in VMC and make changes to DFW quite often. This feature was missing for long time and we could see its included in recent versions . Let's see how DFW configuration roll back works  NSX DFW configuration has versioning, and it is stored in the NSX Manager.  Every time when someone update DFW configuration, NSX creates one more version but keep storing the previous ones. You can rollback for previous config but reapplying it once again.  You can find the options under Networking & Security tab , > Security > Distributed Firewall . In the right side we see an Actions drop down. Choose View to get to the below screen.  Let’s go through the use case:  1. Original state- default config with no custom rules:  a. There are no saved configurations during last 30 days: In my existing test setup, with the current setting

Scavenge.exe tool to delete cached content from secondary cache drive

Prerequisites

This article assumes that you are familiar with the overall functionality of ARR and know how to deploy and configure ARR with disk cache. If you have not done so already, it is strongly recommended that you review the following walkthrough before proceeding:
  • Configure and enable disk cache in Application Request Routing
If Application Request Routing Version 2 has not been installed, you can download it at:
  • Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 (x86) here.
  • Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 (x64) here.
Follow the steps outlined in this document to install ARR Version 2.
This walkthrough also assumes that secondary cache drive has been added to ARR for caching. If not, please follow the Configure and Enable Disk Cache in Application Request Routing walkthrough.

Scavenge.exe tool in ARR

Scavenge.exe is a command line tool that can be used for managing the secondary drive by the administrators. The exe is installed with ARR and can be found in “%ProgramFiles%\IIS\Application Request Routing” folder.
Usage: scavenge.exe <share> dd:[hh[:mm[:ss]]]
  • <share> is the path to the share that ARR is using as secondary cache drive.
  • dd:[hh[:mm[:ss]]] - Duration – cached files older than this duration will be deleted by the tool. Note that hh, mm, ss are optional.
Example: scavenge.exe \\ARR\SecondaryCache 04:11:30:15
This will delete all files located in \\ARR\SecondaryCache that are older than 4 days, 11 hours, 30 minutes and 15 seconds. Note that the tool must be run as a user with permissions to delete content on the specified share.
Windows Task Scheduler can be used to run this tool at specified internval to delete old cached content from the secondary cache drive.

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