Dynamically Quarantine Infected Guests

Confirm that you have content update version 636 or later installed on Panorama.
Create a dynamic address group to be your quarantine dynamic address group.

Create an HTTP Server Profile to send API calls to NSX-V Manager.
Select

Panorama

Server Profiles

HTTP

and

Add

a new HTTP Server Profile.

Enter a descriptive

Name

.

Select

Add

to provide the details of NSX-V Manager.

Enter a

Name

for NSX-V Manager.

Enter the

IP Address

of NSX-V Manager.

Select the Protocol (HTTP or HTTPS). The default Port is 80 or 443 respectively.

Select PUT under the HTTP Method column.

Enter the username and password for NSX-V Manager.



Select

Payload Format

and choose an NSX-V payload format from the Pre-defined Formats drop-down. This populates the URI Format, HTTP Headers, and Payload fields with the correct information to send the HTTP API call to NSX-V Manager. Additionally, the chosen format determines which security tag NSX-V Manager applies to infected guest VMs. In the example below,

NSX-V Anti-Virus Threat High

is selected which corresponds to the

ANTI_VIRUS.VirusFound.threat=high

security tag on NSX-V Manager.


Define the match criteria for when Panorama will forward logs to the NSX-V Manager, and attach the HTTP server profile to use.
Select

Panorama

Collector Groups

Collector Log Forwarding

for Threat or Traffic logs.

Click

Traffic

or

Threat

and

Add

.

Enter a descriptive name for the new log settings.

(

Optional

) Under Filter, you can add filters such as severity to narrow the logs that are forwarded to NSX-V Manager. If All Logs is selected, all threat or traffic logs that meet the criteria set in the HTTP Server profile are sent to NSX-V Manager.

Click

Add

under HTTP and select the HTTP Server Profile configured in Step 3.

Click

OK

.


Configure an NSX-V server certificate for Panorama to forward logs to NSX-V manager.
Select
Panorama
Certificate Management
Certificates
.
Create a root CA certificate with CN=IP address of Panorama.
Create a signed certificate with CN=IP address of NSX-V Manager.
Export the root CA certificate in PEM format without a private key.
Export the signed certificate in PEM format with a private key.

Using a tool such as OpenSSL, concatenate the exported certificates into a single PEM file for upload to NSX-V manager. Use the following commands in OpenSSL to complete this step.
cat cert_NSX_Root_CA.crt
cert_NSX_Signed1.pem > cert_NSX_cert_chain.pem 
openssl pkcs12 -export -in cert_NSX_cert_chain.pem -out cert_NSX_cert.p12 
Log in to NSX-V Manager and select
Manage Appliance Settings
SSL Certificates
Upload PKC#12 Keystore
. Click
Choose File
, locate the p12 file you created in the previous step, and click
Import
.
Associate a security group with a security tag in vCenter.
Log in to vCenter.

Select

Networking & Security

Service Composer

Security Groups

.

Select a security group that is counterpart to the quarantine dynamic address group you created previously and click

Edit Security Group

.



Select Define dynamic membership and click the + icon.

Click

Add

.

Set the criteria details to Security Tag Contains and then enter the NSX-V security tag that corresponds to the NSX payload format you chose in 3. Each of the predefined NSX-V payload formats corresponds to an NSX-V security tag. To view the NSX-V security tags in NSX-V, select

Networking & Security

NSX Managers

NSX Manager IP

Manage

Security Tags

.

In this example,

NSX Anti-Virus Threat High

is used in the HTTP Server Profile so

ANTI_VIRUS.VirusFound.threat=high

is the NSX-V Security Tag that is used here.

Click Finish.


After the guest VM is cleared for removal from quarantine, manually remove the NSX-V security tag from the guest VM in NSX-V.
Log in to vCenter.
Select
VMs and Templates
and choose the quarantined guest.
Select
Summary
Security Tags
Manage
.
Uncheck the security tag used by the quarantine security group and click OK.
Refresh the page and the quarantine security will no longer be listed under
Summary
Security Group Membership
.
Source and destination UUID fields in threat and traffic logs may be blank after a guest VM is removed from quarantine. This can occur when running NSX-V 6.2.3 or earlier or if NSX-V steering rules do not use the inout direction. You can resolve this by upgrading NSX-V to 6.2.4 or issue an NSX Config-sync under
Panorama
VMware
NSX-V
Service Manager
and reboot the PA-VM to resolve this issue.