Smarts: How do I generate ConfigChange notifications

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Customer may want to enable Configuration Change Alarms in their IP domains. 

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

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Cause

The configChange alarm is suppressed by default in Smarts.

Resolution

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

• In your CLI, navigate to the base director of you smarts installation.
• execute this command
  • <basedir> sm_edit tpmgr.conf
• Find this section of the file, and change the EnableConfigChange 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 domain.
• You should begin to see these alarms now.
• NOTE: Devices that have these alarms will be put on the discovery pending list.

Additional Information

For more information, see table 125 on page 233 in the EMC smarts IP manager reference guide.