Generate ConfigChange notifications

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

• Config change alarms are not being generated in smarts.
• I can see the trap, of OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.43.2, being received from devices in smarts, but I do not see ConfigChange alarms/notifications being generated.
  
  

Environment

SMARTS - 10.1.x

Cause

The configChange alarm is suppressed by default in Smarts.

Resolution

To allow for the creation of configChange alarms in smarts, follow these steps:

• In your CLI, navigate to the base directory of you smarts installation.
• Run below command

  <IP_Basedir>/sm_edit tpmgr_param.conf

• Find below section in the file and change the EnableConfigChange to FALSE as highlighted in the section below to TRUE.

  • # EnableConfigChange (Controls whether the IP Manager generates ConfigChange events:
    
    #       A value of TRUE indicates that the IP Manager generates ConfigChange events.
    
    #       A value of FALSE indicates that the IP Manager does not generate ConfigChange events.
    
     
    
    # When the IP Manager generates a ConfigChange event, it adds the device that caused the event to the
    
    # Pending Devices list.
    
    #
    
    # Default Value = FALSE
    
    #
    
    EnableConfigChange FALSE 

• Restart the IP domain.
• You should begin to see these alarms now.
• NOTE: Devices that have these alarms will be put on the discovery pending list.

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