Smarts IP: How do I enable or disable Short Discovery for Availability Manager? Short Discovery appears to be running when it should not; ShortDiscovery threads are running but Short Discovery is not happening

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


How do I enable or disable Smarts IP Availability Manager Short Discovery?

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

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

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.