Logic used in Smarts to create an IP Partition

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

A partition is a group of managed devices formed by IP Availability Manager to help in root-cause analysis.

• How is Smarts IP Partition created?

• What logic does Smarts use to create partitions?

Environment

Smarts - All supported releases

Resolution

If a system has no neighboring systems, then it is not put into any partitions. To create a partition, two systems must be neighbors of each other. To calculate a partition, Smarts uses BFS (Breadth First Search) traversal of graph, starting with #sysObj#. For example, if System A appears as the neighbor of System B, and System B appears as the neighbor of System A  then Smarts will create the partition with these two systems as members.  A system can not be in more than one Partition.

Additional Information

For more information on partitions in Smarts IP, see the below document:

Partition