Pass NCP-MCI-6.10 Exam Guide

Nutanix Application Discovery relies on a combination of Prism Central services and in-guest sensors that collect application metadata, communication patterns, and dependency maps. The internal documentation lists these specific prerequisites before Application Discovery can be enabled:

“Prism Central must have access to the Internet for sensor downloads, signature updates, and metadata service communication.”Application Discovery uses cloud-based metadata to identify applications and services. Without Internet access, Prism Central cannot retrieve application profiles, updated signatures, and dependency mapping definitions.

“The Network Controller service must be enabled to allow flow-level inspection and communication tracking between VMs.”Application Discovery integrates directly with Nutanix Flow’s Network Controller to observe traffic flows, which is required for dependency mapping. Without Network Controller enabled, Prism Central cannot monitor or analyze traffic between workloads.

The documentation clarifies that generating API keys is not required to activate Application Discovery, and sufficient Prism Central resources are already assumed as stated in the question.

Therefore, the required prerequisites are Internet connectivity and enabling the Network Controller.

After a Prism Central upgrade, IAM authentication settings may require reconfiguration.

Option D (Log in with a local admin account) is correct:

If IAM authentication fails, thelocal admin account must be usedto check domain settings.

Option A (Ping the Domain Controller) is incorrect:

Network connectivity is important, but theissue is likely related to IAM settings, not network reachability.

Option B (Check firewall port 9441) is incorrect:

Port 9441 is used forSSO authentication, butport issues usually result in login delays, not complete failures.

Option C (Validate signing certificate) is incorrect:

While certificates can cause issues,local admin login should always work.

To resolve issues with application-consistent snapshots (script execution failures), two critical actions are needed:

NGT Service Status:From the ECA materials:

“The Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) service is responsible for executing pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts for application-consistent snapshots. If NGT is not running, these scripts will not execute.”

Script Validation:

“Before relying on scheduled snapshot runs, execute pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts manually to ensure they complete successfully. This helps to rule out script logic or permission issues.”

Ownership or log review of the script path itself (A and B) are secondary and typically not root-cause resolution steps.