Smarts IP: Prevent STP discovery in Smarts; Can you disable smarts IP manager from discovering stpnodes?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Can you disable smarts IP domain manager from discovering stpnodes?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

No it is not possible to disable the discovery of stpnodes.

STPNodes are required to be discovered even though they are not monitored.

The reason they are required is to create the network/cable connections. (see emc175517) 
So if you did not discover STPNodes, it would impact in network/cable connection

The default setting for stpnode monitoring is /IP/smarts/rules/devstat/sys-setting.asl default EnableSTPMonitoring = FALSE
Setting EnableSTPMonitoring to FALSE, will ensure STPNodes are not monitored and to delete the STPNodes, we can use dmctl invoke delete operation on them.

Setting STPTreeEnabled set to FALSE will disable creating the STP tree