Adding an underlying domain into Smarts SAM from the command line using XML

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Details process for bypassing the Smarts Global Console interface, and inserting a underlying domain, into Smarts SAM using command line. 

Environment

Smarts 10.X / 2.X

Resolution

The following instructions assume an INCHARGE-AM-SUITE domain type already exists. If you need to create a new domain type, see the sample code in the ics-default.xml found here:

<BASEDIR>/SAM/smarts/conf/ics/ics-default.xml

To add an underlying domain into Smarts SAM from the command line using XML, do the following: 

Create an XML file called insertAM.xml in the following location:

local/conf/ics/insertAM.xml

• This file should have the following XML contents:
  
  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE ics_config SYSTEM "ics-config.dtd" >
<ics_config version="2">
    <domainconfig>

         <domain
            name="INCHARGE-AM-2"
            domaintypename="INCHARGE-AM-SUITE"
            enable="True">
            <description>AM analysis domain</description>
         </domain>

    </domainconfig>

</ics_config>

•  Load the XML file as follows (see Note statement):
  

  <BASEDIR>/SAM/smarts/bin/sm_config -s <SAM domain> import insertAM.xml --force

Additional Information

It is not necessary to run a configure operation after adding the new domain through XML as described in the above Fix statement, because the Smarts SAM domain will automatically synchronize with the new domain.