SMARTS - 10.1.X
The Smarts IP domain monitors devices through their IP addresses in the SNMP Agent object's AgentAddressList
. The above symptom can be seen because some of these IP addresses may be duplicates used for shared IP addresses, as in a cluster environment. This can cause the Smarts IP domain to ping/poll the wrong device, which in turn can cause notifications to be generated incorrectly.
The Smarts IP domain will limit the number of IP addresses in the AgentAddressList
for the SNMPAgent object to poll. By default, this limit value is 10. The following sections explain how to change this limit value temporarily or permanently.
Temporarily changing the IP address limit in AgentAddressList
The following command (all on one line) shows how to change the IP address limit setting dynamically to 1, so that only one IP adddress is returned from the AgentAddressList
:
<BASEDIR>/smarts/bin/dmctl -s <AM domain> put ICF_TopologyManager::ICF-TopologyManager::MaxNumberOfAgentAddresses 1
This change will take affect right away, but you will need to rediscover the device in Smarts IP to apply the change in the domain.
Permanently changing the IP address limit in AgentAddressList
To permanently change the IP address limit used by Smarts IP, do the following:
discovery.conf
configuration file for editing using the Smarts sm_edit tool.MaxNumberOfAgentAddresses = 1
" into the file.discovery.conf
configuration file.