Steps For Changing The Polling frequency for VMAX SolutionPack

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Overview, and steps needed to be taken, for Changing The Polling frequency for VMAX SolutionPack within Smarts (W4N specifically). 

Environment

Smarts 10.1.X / 2.X

Resolution

Pre-requisite: VMAX SolutionPack should be installed.

Procedure:

• Log in to the M&R platform with your user name and password.
• Select Administration.
• Select Centralized Management.
• Select Logical Overview> Collecting
• Select XML-Collector:: <VMAX SolutionPack instance>
• Edit the conf/xmlcollector-vmax-topo-fp.xml file under the Configuration Files + Schemas  section.
• Change the polling interval and all the timeouts to the frequent polling period (set polling interval to below tags).
  
  

       For timeout="300" in <collecting-configuration tag.
       For <parameter name="data-timeout"> (set frequent polling interval in <value>300</value>).
       For <parameter name="connection-timeout"> (set frequent polling interval in <value>300</value>).
       Do the same for all collecting-configuration.
  

• Uncomment the last collection-configuration. i.e.

<collecting-configuration id="VMAX-SE-TOPO-POOLS-CAPACITY"
     variable="source device parttype part name" timeout="300" xml-
     job="com.watch4net.apg.v2.collector.plugins.xmlcollector.engine.NuxXmlJob" max-threads="10">

• Click on Save
• Under Logical Overview> Collecting, Select Stream-Collector:: <VMAX SolutionPack instance>.
• Edit the conf/streamcollector-vmax-topo-smi.xml file,
  

       Uncomment the section:
       <values context-key="FreeCapacity" type="counter">
       <name>FrequentPollingFreeCapacity</name>
       <unit>GB</unit>
       </values>

  
  
  
• Click on Save.
• Edit the conf/parsers/smi/topology/parser-disks-fp.xml file, Change the retrieving period to the frequent polling period
• Click on Save.
• Edit the conf/parsers/smi/topology/parser-ports.xml file, Change the retrieving period to the frequent polling period.
• Click on Save.
• Edit the conf/parsers/smi/topology/parser-storage-pools-fp.xml file,Change the retrieving period to the frequent polling period.
• Click on Save.
• After changing the files, restart the collector manager.
  
  

Note: Those changes will be lost if the SolutionPack is reconfigured or if a device is added. We recommend a minimum frequent polling period of 5 minutes for an average size array.