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BloxConnect

BloxConnect is a useful source of telemetry to help Infoblox develop and improve NIOS (datasheet). It is recommended to enable it to improve your support experience.

BloxConnect transmits once every 24 hours.

Show BloxConnect Status

show bloxconnect
Infoblox > show bloxconnect

Bloxconnect disabled
set bloxconnect enable
Infoblox > show bloxconnect

Bloxconnect enabled

Disable CSP Access

To disable CSP access, log into NIOS CLI and run these three commands

  1. set maintenancemode
  2. set cloud off
  3. scrape
  4. set maintenancemode off

Now all the non-NIOS containers are removed, and you should not see those connections.

Enable

To join this host back to the cloud (CSP) in the future, run the following commands from the appliance and then initiate the joining process:

  1. set maintenancemode
  2. set cloud on
  3. set maintenancemode off

Extract from Support Bundle

NIOS 8.6.3 or higher. 

storage/noa/onprem.d/heka_data.json