Starting a Smarts discovery from the command line.

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


How do I start or stop a discovery from the command line?
How to stop auto discovery

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

To start a discovery, run the following command from BASEDIR\smarts\bin:
     ./dmctl -s <<AM server>> invoke ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager start

To stop a discovery, run the following command from BASEDIR\smarts\bin:
     ./dmctl -s <<AM server>> invoke ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager stop

Additional Information

When invoke "start" command, following error might appear:

 

CI-E-EGENERIC-Tried to insert a duplicate row in a table
 MR-DUPLICATE_ROW-Tried to insert a duplicate row in a table

 

Fix: re-issue "start" command again.