Smarts IP: Seeing the following Partition errors in the logs; Warning: partition.conf: Line 763: azp000 does not belong to any partition., what does it mean?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:




What does this error mean in my Smarts IP domain logs?

[October 23, 2015 3:53:36 PM CDT +418ms] t@374339328 Partition-DisplayName-Driver ASL_MSG-*-ASLP-discovery/ic-partition-name.asl: Warning: partition.conf: Line 763: azp000 does not belong to any partition.

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

When you see this error in the logs it means that this device doesn't have any L2/L3 connection to other devices, L2 and L3 neighbors are not discovered.

NOTE: This is working as designed.  Smarts is working as designed.