Smarts ESM: How to change the polling frequency for VNX SolutionPack; Steps for frequent polling in VNX SolutionPack;

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How to change the polling frequency for VNX SolutionPack



Prequisite: VNX SolutionPack should be installed.

Procedure
1. Log in to the (Watch4Net) EMC M&R platform with your user name and password.
2. Select Administration.
3. Select Centralized Management.
4. Select Logical Overview> Collecting
5. Select Text-Collector::<VNX SolutionPack instance>
6. Edit the conf/textoutputcollector-vnxblock-frequentpoll.xml file under the   Configuration Files + Schemas   section.

7. Look for the polling-interval tag:

     <simultaneous-collecting>1</simultaneous-collecting>
     <polling-interval>300</polling-interval>
     <refresh>3600</refresh>
     <collecting-group >group</collecting-group>
     <source>VNXBlock-Collector</source>

     Default value for polling-interval is 300 seconds. Change it to required polling interval.

8. For each collecting-configuration in the same file you will have to set timeout with polling interval value which was set in the previous step.

     For example:
     <collecting-configuration name="VNXBLOCK-FREQUENTPOLL-DISKS" timeout="120">
     Set the timeout=120 if you had chosen the polling interval as 120.

9. Click on Save.
10. Under Logical Overview> Collecting, Select Collector-Manager::< VNX SolutionPack instance>.

11. Edit the conf/collecting.xml, as below

     Go to line
     <collector enabled="false" name="VNXBlock-FrequentPoll" next="VNX-CRFSERIALNB" config="Text-
     Collector/emc-vnx/conf/textoutputcollector-vnxblock-frequentpoll.xml" />
     Set enabled='true'.

12. Click on Save.
13. Restart the collector, by clicking on "Restart" button.