Smarts IP: How do I make the SNMP management address the loopback address?

Products

• VMware

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How do I make the SNMP management address the loopback address?

To make the SNMP management address the loopback address, complete the following steps.

 

For a new domain:

 

1.  From the command line, open the tpmgr-param.conf configuration file for editing as follows:

<BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_edit conf/discovery/tpmgr-param.conf

2.  Find the ForceAgentAddressInListSysPattern line, and comment out this line so that it looks like the following:

#ForceAgentAddressInListSysPattern

 

3. Open Smarts IP discovery.conf configuration file for editing using sm_edit:

 

<BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_edit conf/discovery.conf

 

4.  Change AccessAddressFormat to Loopback address

 

AccessAddressFormat = "LOOPBACKADDRESS"

 

5.  Start the new domain after the above change.

For existing domain:

 

1. Make the changes as above from step 1 - 4.

 

2. <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <domain server> invoke ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager insertParameter ForceAgentAddressInListSysPattern NULL

 

3. <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <domain server> put ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager::AccessAddressFormat LOOPBACKADDRESS

Additional Information

Use the following command to set the settings back on a running server:

 

1.  <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <domain server> invoke ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager insertParameter ForceAgentAddressInListSysPattern \*

 

2.  <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <domain server> put ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager::AccessAddressFormat AUTOADDRESS