New AggregateInterface class in 9.4 patch 1

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

There is a new class called AggregateInterface in the Smarts 9.4 Suite patch 1. What is this?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

• It is a new class designed to support Layer 3 port channel aggregation similar to AggregatePorts which are already part of the code.
  Earlier version of SMARTS created AggregatePort from both ports and Intefaces. This AggregatePort was derived from Port class and hence some of the interface properties were not created.
• The product was enhanced to support layer 3 aggregation through the same LACP protocol for interfaces
• When an interface index is represented in the LACP MIB and if that was created as an interface, then we create AggregateInterfaces instead of AggregatePorts.
• All events associated with AggregatePort are applicable to AggregateInterface, so the event UnbalancedAdapterUtilization will be the same for AggregateInterface as well.
• AggregatePorts will compose of Ports and AggregateInterface will compose of Interfaces only.
• The class  AggregateInterface, when expanded, will only show up AggregateInterface instances.