Enable debug for Trap Exploder (TE) and Trap Adapter (TA)

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Steps to enable debug on TE and TA.

Environment

All Supported Smarts versions

Resolution

To enable debug for Trap Adapter (TA):

• By default, in  <SAM_BASE>/smarts/conf/icoi/trap_mgr.conf, below are the debug flags configured:

# DEBUG = FALSE
# LOGGING = OFF

• Use sm_edit to open this file and uncomment the above attributes:

<SAM_BASE>/smarts/bin/sm_edit conf/icoi/trap_mgr.conf
DEBUG = TRUE
LOGGING = ALL

• Save and close the file.
• Restart the TA service for debug flags to take effect.

To enable debug for Trap Exploder (TE): 

• By default, in <SAM_BASE>/smarts/rules/trapd/trapParse.asl, below debug flag is configured:

debug = FALSE;

• Use sm_edit to open this file and set the above attribute to below:

<SAM_BASE>/smarts/bin/sm_edit rules/trapd/trapParse.asl
debug = TRUE;

• Save and close the file.
• Restart the TE service for debug flag to take effect.