VMware Smart Assurance: How to increase the number of trap processing threads in Smarts SAM?

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
How to increase the number of trap processing threads in Smarts SAM?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

By default, Trap adapter (TA) and Trap exploder (TE) services have 1 Thread set for Trap processing. To increase the number of trap processing threads on these services in Smarts SAM, do the following:

1. Open the trapd.conf files for the Trap adapter and Trap exploder using sm_edit as follows:
   For Trap adapter: <BASEDIR>/SAM/smarts/bin# sm_edit ../conf/icoi/trapd.conf
   For Trap exploder: <BASEDIR>/SAM/smarts/bin# sm_edit ../conf/trapd/trapd.conf 
    
2. Search for #THREADS: 1 and remove the # , update the value 1 to a required number. The maximum value is 25.
    
3. Save the changes and close the trapd.conf files.
4. Restart the TA, TE services for the change to take affect

Additional Information

Refer https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Smart-Assurance/10.1.0/sam-adapter-platform-user-guide-101/GUID-63458C13-78F3-481A-AF88-C4C1A3598733.html for more details.