Elections NSX Intelligence no longer publishes Distributed Firewall recommendations. The Intelligence appliance is powered on, but it cannot reach the NSX-T Managers on the management network. What should the administrator restore?

When elections NSX Intelligence no longer publishes Distributed Firewall recommendations, the Intelligence appliance is powered on, but it cannot reach the NSX-T Managers on the management network, restore management-plane IP connectivity between the NSX Intelligence appliance and the NSX-T Manager cluster. Intelligence must talk to Managers to analyze flows and publish recommendations; power alone is insufficient if management routing or ACLs block that path. Restoring connectivity returns civic DFW recommendation publishing. Pointing Intelligence at vRealize Network Insight so underlay path traces replace Manager connectivity fails by concept because vRNI path traces do not replace Intelligence-to-Manager connectivity for DFW recommendations. Enrolling Intelligence as a Workspace ONE Access connector so Hub can retrieve flow recommendations fails by concept because Access connectors do not publish NSX DFW recommendations. Installing a CB Defense sensor on Intelligence and use Carbon Black Cloud as the DFW recommendation source fails by concept because CBC is not the NSX DFW recommendation engine. Exam caveat: powered-on Intelligence without Manager reachability cannot recommend—restore management IP connectivity before product redirects. Operational check: fix routing/firewall between Intelligence and Managers, confirm API connectivity, regenerate recommendations for elections segments, and monitor Intelligence-Manager health in the elections NSX operations dashboard for municipal election infrastructure security.