Smarts SAM: How can the Topology Device groups be "colored" according to the notifications of a different class (e.g. NetworkConnections), other than Router or Switches

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

Each Topology group is "Colored" according to the severity of the notifications of the devices inside(UnitaryComputerSystem) the group. However, if the notification is in regards to physical connectivity (NetworkConnections) of the devices, the group is not "colored".



For example: CORE_AREA_0 is not colored, meaning the group does not contain notifications. But when you view this group, there are notifications regarding the physical connectivities amongst different devices.



Viewing inside the CORE_AREA_0



How can the group be "colored" according to the notifications of a different class (e.g. NetworkConnections), other than Router or Switches?

• You will need to get the connections into the group to have it "colored" according to NetworkConnection notifications
• You must create HierarchicalGroups (can only be created from the conf file). It will not work with SelectiveGroups (created from GUI)
  1. Create Hierarchical groups by editing file: "topology-group.data.template" and adding the groupd such as below:
     • HierarchicalGroup MyGroup children CORE_Grp EDGE_Grp
     • HierarchicalGroup CORE_Grp members
     • file:/opt/InCharge/SAM/smarts/local/conf/ics/my_core_group.members
     • HierarchicalGroup EDGE_Grp members
     • file:/opt/InCharge/SAM/smarts/local/conf/ics/my_edge_group.members
  2. Define the group members by inserting the related Devices and NetworkConnection instances in the respective ".members" files above. See example below:
     • Router::Device_1
       Router::Device_2
       Router::Device_3
       Router::Device_4
       NetworkConnection::LINK-IF-Name_1/55<->IF-Name_1/55
       NetworkConnection::LINK-IF-Name_1/56<->IF-Name_1/56
       NetworkConnection::LINK-IF-Name_1/57<->IF-Name_1/57
  3. Regroup the HierarchicalGroups created by executing the following command:
     •   ./dmctl -s <SAM server> invoke GA_DaemonDriver::ICS-Group-Driver start

Additional Information

The reason why the CORE_AREA_0 is not colored, is because this is a Selective Group which doesn t contain the NetworkConnections only UnitaryComputerSystems. Therefore, CORE_AREA_0 doesn t take the network connections into account, hence it is not colored because the notification is in relation to NetworkConnections and not UnitaryComputerSystems