Enable/disable SNMP tracing/debug on a single device in Smarts IP?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Using this tracing / debug will provide you the data that the Smarts IP is receiving from the device's SNMP Agent.

Resolution

Steps to enable/disable SNMP debug on a single device in Smarts IP?

1) Roll the IP domain log.  This will make it easier to read through the log file.

<BASEDIR>/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <server> exec roll_log

2) To enable debugging: 

Note: The instance name should be the FQDN of the device.

<BASEDIR>/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <server> invoke ICIP_SNMPAccessorInterface::DEVSTAT-SNMP-Poller setTrace ICIM_UnitaryComputerSystem::<instance> TRUE

Keep this enabled for at least 2 to 3 polling cycles to collect the data.  For example, if your polling cycle is 4 minutes, let this run for 12 minutes then disable the debugging.

Data will be in server log file in IP/smarts/local/logs/<server>.log

3) To disable debugging:

<BASEDIR>/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <server> invoke ICIP_SNMPAccessorInterface::DEVSTAT-SNMP-Poller setTrace ICIM_UnitaryComputerSystem::<instance> FALSE