How do I view more than 1000 instances in the Smarts Console?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


How do I view more than 1000 instances in the Smarts Global Console?
How do I view more than 1000 instances in the Smarts webConsole?


When the user expands an object class in the topology browser of the Global Console, they see an error message saying "xxxx instances (browsing disabled)"

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

For Global Console, Start the Global Console (sm_gui) with the option:
 -Dcom.smarts.maxTopoInstances=XXXX  where XXXX is the maximum number of instances you would like to be able to browse.

For webConsole, add the following flag to <BASEDIR>/CONSOLE/smarts/tomcat/webapps/webconsole/webconsole.properties where tomcat server is running.
  com.smarts.maxTopoInstances=XXXX  where XXXX is the maximum number of instances you would like to be able to browse.

restart the webConsole for the change to take affect.

The user should note that this option will consume more memory by both the console and server processes and should be used only if necessary.  It is recommended that the "Find Instance" option be used to locate specific instances inside an object class where feasible.