Smarts SAM: Setting UseDNSLookupInThisDomain to TRUE in ICS_OperationalOptions.import does not work

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Cannot set UseDNSLookupInThisDomain=TRUE in the active Smarts SAM environment

Setting UseDNSLookupInThisDomain=TRUE in the ICS_OperationalOptions.import file (/local/conf/ics/ICS_OperationalOptions.import) does not appear to work. When setting the variable UseDNSLookupInThisDomain = TRUE in the ../local/conf/ics/ICS_OperationalOptions.import, the following is observed:

 

ICS_OperationalOptions::ICS-OperationalOptions

{

UseDNSLookupInThisDomain = TRUE

}

 

SAM Domain restarted.
 

Howvever, dmctl command output still shows this var as being set to FALSE as shown in the following:

 

./dmctl -s UATCDL_SAM9990 get ICS_OperationalOptions::ICS-OperationalOptions

 

Properties of ICS_OperationalOptions::ICS-OperationalOptions:

CreationClassName = ICS_OperationalOptions

DNSDomainNames = 

Description = 

DisableUnderlyingDomainsQuery = FALSE

DisplayName = 

FullyQualifiedDomainNameSuffixes = 

Name = ICS-OperationalOptions

ServiceName = 

UnderlyingDomainsOrder = 

UseDNSDomainsInDNSLookup = FALSE

UseDNSLookupInThisDomain = FALSE

UseDNSLookupInUnderlyingDomains = FALSE

 

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Cause

Repository restore is overwriting the value set for the UseDNSLookupInThisDomain attribute. The creation of the ICS_OperationalOptions Object and the UseDNSLookupInThisDomain attribute (and other attributes) being set by the ICS_OperationalOptions import file is done before the rps file is restored. Because ICS_OperationalOptions Object is also part of the rps file, the repository restore actually overwrites all the values set for the ICS_OperationalOptions object.

Resolution

To work around this issue, you can process the import file after the repository restore as follows:
 

1. Rename the ICS_OperationalOptions.import file to ICS_OperationalOptions.importlast. 
2. Restart the repository server. 

 

Renaming this file with the *.importlast extension will allow the value for the UseDNSLookupInThisDomain attribute in the file to update after the repository is restored, so that the value will apply in the active environment.