Preventing SNMP Trap Adapter from logging discard traps to the trap adapter logs

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

• Stopping the Smarts SAM SNMP Trap Adapter from logging the discard traps that are defined in trap_mgr.conf file.
• Prevent SNMP Trap Adapter from logging discard traps to the trap adapter logs

Environment

Smarts - 10.1.x

Resolution

• Open the trap_mgr_parse.asl file for editing in sm_edit as 

  <SAM_BASE>/smarts/bin/sm_edit rules/icoi-trapd/trap_mgr_parse.asl

• Find Line:
  

  if ((logfile != "NONE") && (logfile != ""))

• Change it to:

  if ((logfile != "NONE") && (logfile != "") && discard_trap=="FALSE")

• Restart the trap adapter service to apply the change.