Enable or disable Availability Manager Short Discovery

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

• Smarts IP Availability Manager Short Discovery appears to be running when it should not.

• Smarts IP Availability Manager Short Discovery appears to be running even though autoReprobe_short = FALSE in discovery.conf configuration file.

• Smarts IP Availability Manager ShortDiscovery threads are running but Short Discovery is not occurring on appropriate devices.

Environment

All supported releases of Smart

Cause

Smarts IP Availability Manager ShortDiscovery threads always run, regardless of whether "autoReprobe_short" flag is enabled or not. However, short discovery only really happens if the autoReprobe_short flag is set to TRUE in the Smarts IP discovery.conf file, and only happens on devices which are capable of short discovery such as IPSec devices. If this flag is set to FALSE, even though the threads are running, short discovery does not get triggered.

Resolution

To enable or disable Smarts IP Availability Manager Short Discovery, do the following:

1. Open the Smarts IP discovery.conf configuration file using sm_edit:
   
   <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_edit conf/discovery.conf
   
    
2. Find the autoReprobe_short parameter, and set its value according to your requirements:
    
3. • Disabled: Set autoReprobe_short = FALSE
   • Enabled: Set autoReprobe_short = TRUE
      
      
4. Save and close the discovery.conf configuration file.
5. Restart the Smarts IP domain to make the configuration change active in the environment.