Ways to determine of the ESM domain is discovering virtual center

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Messages to look out for in the logs or ESM domain manager, to determine of the ESM domain is discovering virtual center

Environment

All Supported Smarts releases

Resolution

When you install ESM, the value IsVM is set to TRUE by default.

You can verify this setting by running the command:

dmctl -s <ESM domain name> get ESM_Manager::ESM-Manager::IsVM

You can also enable IsDebug option to TRUE in the ESM.import file. 

When the debug is enabled, you'll see the following message if vCenter discovery is disabled:

<Date & Time> vmware-vc-discovery.asl:930051840: VMware discovery is disabled

This means that IsVM set to false.

You can force the IsVM value to either true or false by setting it in the runcmd_env.sh file as "IsVM = TRUE" or "IsVM = FALSE" and restart the domain.