Smarts IP 9.4: Not Discovering CRS Router Into Smarts Multicast Topology Collection

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


In Smarts 9.4, the Cisco CRS device (with SysOID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.643) does not get imported into the Smarts MCAST_TopologyCollection like it should be. Currently the results below are seen: 



The issue has been raised with the Smarts Engineering team and a permanent fix will included in a future release. When more information is available (patch/release notes and availability), this KB will be updated to included that information. 

 

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

As a temporary work-around, you can take the following actions:

• You will need to change the priority for Multicast-Select-Driver in discovery/conf/DISCOVERY_MCAST.import file from 873 to 105.
• Use the Smarts sm_edit utility to edit the following file:
• ./sm_edit conf/discovery/DISCOVERY_MCAST.import
• The End-Device-Generic-Driver definition should be as per below:

End-Device-Generic-Driver {

    drivers += {"Multicast-Select-Driver", 105}

}

• Instead of:

End-Device-Generic-Driver {

    drivers += {"Multicast-Select-Driver", 873}

}

• Next you need to restart your domain and re-discover the Cisco Router

 

Alternatively, you can comment out the below section in the DISCOVERY_CISCO.conf

• Using the same sm_edit utility to edit the below file:
  • ./sm_edit conf/discovery/DISCOVERY_CISCO.import

1.        # End-Device-Generic-Driver {

2.        # drivers += {"End-Device-Cisco-CPUProc-Driver", 110}

3.        # }

• And leave priority for Multicast-Select-Driver to 873 as it was originally
  • ./sm_edit conf/discovery/DISCOVERY_MCAST.import

End-Device-Generic-Driver {

    drivers += {"Multicast-Select-Driver", 873}

}

• After making this change, this would also require a restart of the domain and re-discovery of the Cisco Router