Option to disable the establishment of a connection between two ports

Products

• CA Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

Option to disable the establishment of a connection between two ports introduced in Spectrum 20.2.0 (aka 10.4.2.0)

Overview

• Helps administrator/operator in controlling the creation of connections between the ports.
• Introduced a new attribute "LockPort" of Integer type on Port model, to toggle on creating a connection between two ports or not.
• Default value is 'No', i.e. no change in existing behavior while forming a connection between the ports.

Environment

Spectrum 20.2.x (aka 10.4.2.x) onwards

Resolution

How it works

During initial discovery, all the devices and connections between them are created as they are happening till date.

Later if we don't want to make a connection between any ports, select any of the required port, goto LockPort attribute and make the value to Yes.

Now remove unwanted connections for that port.

Then onwards, no connection is made on this port for all kinds of discoveries.

 

Key points

• Supported for
  • LAN discovery
  • WAN discovery
  • Restricting off page references
  • E-VPN discovery
• Unsupported for
  • DMVPN discovery
  • Manual connection