VMware Smart Assurance NCM: How to configure automatic Syslog and SNMP Trap pulls to run a Pull All instead of a Pull Config?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
By default NCM executes Pull Config job when there is a Config change trap or Syslog from device. How to change this setting to Pull All?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - NCM

Resolution

There are two ways to make this setting change:

 

Option 1:

1) On Application Server, take a backup of file $VOYENCE_HOME/ncmcore/webapps/ncm-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/system-config.xml

 

2) Open $VOYENCE_HOME/ncmcore/webapps/ncm-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/system-config.xml, search for "pullafterdevservernotif". 
----------------------------
    <configItem>
      <configType>config.server</configType>
   <name>com.powerup.configmgr.server.services.scheduler.pullafterdevservernotif</name>
      <editable>true</editable>
      <!-- NONE, PULL_CONFIGS, PULL_ALL -->
      <defaultValue>PULL_CONFIGS</defaultValue>
    </configItem>
----------------------------

In the config Item, edit the highlighted field PULL_CONFIGS to PULL_ALL. Save and close the file.

 

3) Restart vcmaster service with command: service vcmaster restart

 

 

Option 2:

1) Login to the Jminix Console.
In browser, navigate to the following address: https://<NCM_AS_IP>:8880/ncm-webapp
Type the username and password for the Jminix Console. The default username is jmx-user and the default password is sysadmin.

2) Go to servers > 0 > domains > com.powerup.configmgr.server.config.jmx > mbeans > name=VoyenceControlConfig,type=JMXSystemConfig > operations.

3) Locate the setConfigItem() operation and provide the following values for the parameters:
For parameter 1: config.server
For parameter 2: com.powerup.configmgr.server.services.scheduler.pullafterdevservernotif 
For parameter 3: PULL_ALL

Click Execute.

4) To make the new value permanent:
Locate the saveAll() operation. Click Execute.

5) To verify your setting:
Locate the listAll() operation. Click Execute.

Additional Information

The steps in this article are applicable to NCM version 9.6 and above.