It is necessary to understand that field certification is an attempt to provide device discovery the environment basic functionality. However, it is a good idea, and possibly a great practice to consistently check for a certification team confirmed device certification. Sometime a certification team confirmed certificate content can differ from a field certification. This can cause the discovery of instances and objects to be different.
Please note: the only file that should be used to add new, or modify existing certifications is the
oid2type_Field.conf file in the local/conf/discovery folder.
DO NOT modify any of the base files that are installed in the BaseDir/IP/smarts/conf/discovery folder. This action is not supported by DELL EMC.
There was an instance where a customer had copied all of the files in this BaseDir/IP/smarts/conf/discovery directory to the local/conf/discovery directory, edited a variety of base and local files.
- The result was a number of devices that failed to discover properly,
- Multiple errors reported in the logs
- And the local oid2type_Field.conf to become unusable
- Severely impacted the customer production environment and resulted in the customer having to install a clean install of Smarts IP in order to compare what had been changed in the broken installation.
The one additional note: the
sm_tpmgr -s <AM_domain> --reloadoid command is primarily designed to compare the base files and reload the oid2type_Field.conf