Not able to discover the SNMPv3 device through seed files as it is saying SNMP not reachable.

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

sm_edit must be used to encrypt the password and must avoid using "=" characters in the password, as it will cause encryption problem.

The  =  characters in the password, that needs to be removed from device and the seedfile.

Because seedfile encryption will always break the password string wherever it encounters a  =  character. 
Reason being that, seedfiles are a series of properties=value, therefore it makes sense that  =  would be an issue.

Hence the recommendation to remove that character from the password.