Smarts ESM 9.4 patch 4: How to discover and monitor devices grouped under Customer "Groups and Management" in SA Suite (Watch4Net)
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Smarts ESM 9.4 patch 4: How to discover and monitor devices grouped under Customer "Groups and Management" in SA Suite (Watch4Net)

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Article ID: 331887

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Products

VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How to discover and monitor devices grouped under Customer "Groups and Management" in EMC M&R

From ESM 9.3 release onwards, Server Manager provides EMC M&R specific filters and properties in the XML configuration files for Brocade, Cisco, VNX and VMAX SolutionPacks where it can fetch data from EMC M&R through web service API in order to discover and monitor only those Storage devices that belong to a specific customer defined in M&R instead of importing the entire M&R storage topology.management/#/grouping
 





In order to configure ESM Manager to import devices assigned to a specific customer in M&R, users need to specify the customer group name in the following file:

<name>-sp-config.xml

under the directory where Server Manager is installed:

$SM_HOME\conf\w4n\sp-xml-conf

This directory contains a configuration file for each SolutionPack:

  • brocade-sp-config.xml
  • vnx-sp-config.xml
  • vmax-sp-config.xml
  • cisco-sp-config.xml

For example:

If there is a customer group name "My_Company" under "Groups Management" in EMC M&R, then "entityFilter" XML tags value inside <name>-sp-config.xml files should be post-appended with "&amp; customer = '%My_Company%" string.

Make modifications to brocade-sp-config.xml, vnx-sp-config.xml, vmax-sp-config.xml, cisco-sp-config.xml based on these devices being present in your environment.

Before:

<entityFilter>devtype =='FabricSwitch' &amp; name=='OperStatus' &amp; vendor == 'Brocade' &amp; isps = 'yes ' &amp; (!vstatus | vstatus=='active')</entityFilter>

After:

<entityFilter>devtype =='FabricSwitch' &amp; name=='OperStatus' &amp; vendor == 'Brocade' &amp; isps = 'yes ' &amp; (!vstatus | vstatus=='active') &amp; customer = '%My_Company%</entityFilter>.

Note: Loading of these files from <BASEDIR>/local is not supported. Editing these files via sm_edit is discouraged. These files are only present under <SMARTS_BASE_DIR>\conf\w4n\sp-xml-conf. Make a manual copy of the files before making any modifications.

Note: ESM Server needs to be restarted in order to load changes to these xml files.


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