How to monitor topology changes with the Smarts IP server.

Products

• VMware

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How to monitor changes occurring with the Smarts IP Server topology

To monitor topology changes within the InCharge system, you must connect an adapter which subscribes to the Smarts IP server.  This adapter will output all topology changes to a log file.

To start the adapter:
<BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_adapter -s <server_name> --subscribe=topology output=<logfile>

This command will attach the sm_adapter to the specified server.  The logfile specified will be located in the <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/local/logs directory.