Steps to enable lite-synchronization between BGP and IP domains

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

• Regular full discovery in the BGP Domain Manager takes a long time when adding a few devices at fixed intervals in IP Availability Manager.
• How to reduce the discovery time on newly added devices?

Environment

All supported release of Smarts

Cause

Lite-synchronization between BGP Domain Manager and the underlying IP Availability Manager is disabled

Resolution

Below are the three attributes which are introduced in the <BASEDIR>/smarts/conf/bgp/bgp.conf file which enable or disable the ability to detect new devices.

 LiteSynchronizationInterval = 3600

 EnableReconfigureLaunchedLiteSynchronization = FALSE

 EnablePeriodicLiteSynchronization = FALSE

Only newly-added devices are detected and imported into Network Protocol Manager for BGP. By default, lite-synchronization between BGP Domain Manager and the underlying IP Availability Manager is disabled. Set the attributes to TRUE and restart the BGP Domain to turn on the lite-synchronization.

For more details refer Parameters in the bgp.conf