Usage of dmctl utility to change a PollingInterval setting to a value greater than 3600

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

This article explains the usage of dmctl utility to change a Smarts Polling Group -> PollingInterval setting to a value greater than 3600

Symptoms:

Smarts cannot create a Polling Group with PollingInterval setting greater than 3600 seconds

Environment

All Supported Smarts Releases

Resolution

To change the Smarts IP PollingInterval to a value greater than 3600 using dmctl, do the following:

1. Attach to the domain that you would like to change the PollingInterval for using dmctl.
2. Run the following command to generate a list of all the Polling Settings for all the different Polling Groups:

getInstances Connectivity_Polling_Setting

3. Isolate the group that you would like to change the PollingInterval setting as follows (where [Polling Group] is the group to which the device belongs):

SET-CFG-Polling Groups/[PollingGroup]/Connectivity_Polling_Setting

4. Use this [PollingGroup] in the following put command (all on one line) to configure a value greater than 3600 for the PollingInterval (4000 in the following example):

put Connectivity_Polling_Setting::"SET-CFG-Polling Groups/[PollingGroup]/Connectivity_Polling_Setting"::PollingInterval 4000

5. Check the new value of the PollingInterval using the following get command (all on one line):

get Connectivity_Polling_Setting::"SET-CFG-Polling Groups/[PollingGroup]/Connectivity_Polling_Setting"::PollingInterval