Attribute (Description or Device ID) that are imported from Source-Smarts by default.

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

• Understanding which attribute (Description or Device ID) is imported from Source-Smarts by default?
• Can this default setting be changed?
• DeviceID is not reflected in MnR Report.

Environment

Watch4Net/MnR - 7.x

Resolution

The value in pm.xml file of the Watch4net configuration is as follows:

<property name="Description DeviceID" drop-empty="true" rename="part part" />

With this pm.xml configuration, Watch4net will take the Description value in the above line from Smarts by default.

To change this behavior, you can modify the above line as follows:

<property name="DeviceID  Description" drop-empty="true" rename="part part" />

With this configuration, Watch4net will take both the Device ID and Description values from Smarts. To apply the above change, following need to be perfomed:

• Restart Collector manager.
• Restart tomcat.
• Run Import Property tagging filter and wait for 20 to 30 minutes.

After the above change, the Device ID will be reflected in Watch4net.