Smarts SAM: How to turn off extra/unneeded auditing in a notification such as "Notif created" and "Notif Attribute Updated"

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


How to reduce the Notification processing load on the Smarts SAM domain

How to turn off extra/unneeded auditing in a Smarts SAM notification such as the following:

• Notif created
• Notif Attribute Updated
• Notif with TopologyElement Established

Each single update on a Notification puts a processing load on the Smarts SAM domain that can impact performance.

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

To disable extra/unneeded auditing in Smarts SAM, you need to set the NotificationAudit and EventAudit flags to FALSE in all of the appropriate DXA files:

• NotificationAudit: For SAM to SAM and SAM to OI domain notifications
• EventAudit: For SAM and IP domain events

DXA files to edit NotificationAudit
The DXA files for SAM to SAM and SAM to OI that need the NotificationAudit flag set to FALSE are:

• dxa-sam.conf
• dxa-sam-noti.conf

DXA files to edit EventAudit
The DXA files for SAM to IP that need the EventAudit flag set to FALSE are:

• dxa-conn.conf
• dxa-conn-noti.conf
• dxa-conn-perf.conf
• dxa-conn-perf-noti.conf