An administrator can implement Distributed Intrusion Detection as a distributed solution across multiple NSX Edge nodes in an NSX-T Data Center. This allows for real-time monitoring of network traffic, as well as detection and prevention of malicious activity. Additionally, it can be used to identify, investigate, and respond to potential security threats. Reference: [1] https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T/3.0/vmware-nsx-t-30-administration-guide/GUID-1F8741C0-D1CD-4EA3-A2BB-98CEF7F8D1DA.html [2] https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-nsx-data-center-for-vsphere-distributed-intrusion-detection-deployment-guide.pdf

For further reading, see the VMware NSX-T Data Center Administration Guide (https://pubs.vmware.com/NSX-T-Data-Center/index.html#com.vmware.nsxt.admin.doc/GUID-8F9C6E9E-9C83-4CAD-BB3A-F4E4A25C6FE7.html) for more information on configuring time based rules.

For further reading, see the VMware NSX-T Data Center Administration Guide (https://pubs.vmware.com/NSX-T-Data-Center/index.html#com.vmware.nsxt.admin.doc/GUID-E6B25C6F-1F25-4B0F-B8AF-6B8C00F9C3A3.html) for more information on configuring the Distributed IDS/IPS.

vSphere Tags are labels that can be used to group and categorize virtual machines and other objects. The security administrator can create a tag for quarantined VMs and assign it to any VMs that are confirmed to be infected. This will help identify and isolate the infected VMs more quickly and easily in the future.

The component in a transport node that receives the firewall configuration from the central control plane is the NSX-MPA (Management Plane Agent). The NSX-MPA runs on each transport node and is responsible for connecting to the NSX-T central control plane and receiving the configuration for the transport node. It is also responsible for pushing the configuration down to the other components on the transport node, such as the NSX-Proxy, NSX-Appl-Proxy, and NSX-CCP. Reference: [1] https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T/3.0/vmware-nsx-t-30-administration-guide/GUID-8C33F5B5-1B98-4A5F-B5B1-D70BE45F9FAD.html [2] https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T/3.0/com.vmware.nsxt.install.doc/GUID-C129F7F0-E6F8-4A14-B2B0-9D6F3A7A3F62.