Understanding device discovery status

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

• How do I determine if Smarts IP discovery is running?
• Smarts AM server gets stuck discovering a device.
• After the RPS was saved and started up on a different machine the server seemed to be stuck discovering a device.

Environment

Smarts - 10.1.x

Cause

probeInProgress needs to be checked before saving the rps. The attribute should be FALSE.

Resolution

The Smarts dmctl...probeInProgress command can be used to determine if Smarts IP discovery is currently running. The syntax for this command is as follows:

<BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <INCHARGE-AMPM> get ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager::probeInProgress

The probeInProgress operation will return TRUE or FALSE, and will return TRUE for all stages of discovery that are currently running, including post processing (InClosureCreation, InProbe or InPostProcess).