Smarts AM: What controls the managed / unmanaged state (Manage Status) of interfaces in Smarts IP Availability Manager?

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


What controls the managed / unmanaged state (Manage Status) of interfaces in Smarts IP Availability Manager?
Which file controls managed / unmanaged state of interfaces in Smarts IP Availability Manager?

How can you modify an interface Manage Status that controls managed / unmanaged state of interfaces in Smarts IP Availability Manager?


Smarts IP server log file contains the line "*managing interface...", but Smarts IP is not managing the interface

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

The interface Manage Status is modified through the ASL Script in the ic-post-port-manager.asl file. Smarts AM manages the interfaces in this file with an override parameter set to False. When the override parameter is set to False, then if the given interface is explicitly Managed, the status will not be changed. This is the reason why you may see the line "*managing interface..." in a Smarts IP server log file, but if the interface is explicitly unmanaged, Smarts IP will not manage it.