Context-Sensitive Command Whitelisting for Centralized Troubleshooting Tool

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit troubleshoots a virtual network that is implemented across a plurality of computing devices, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

• providing a command line interface (CLI) for receiving and executing commands for debugging and monitoring the virtual network, each command for communicating with a set of the computing devices in order to monitor a network service being provided by the set of computing devices, wherein the CLI operates in a plurality of different contexts for monitoring a plurality of different types of network services;
• while the CLI is operating in a particular context for a particular type of network service, receiving a command comprising a set of identifiers;
• determining a validity of the received command under the particular context;
• and
• when the received command is valid under the particular context, transmitting data to a computing device identified by the received command.