AggregateInterfacesGroup creation in P&T

Products

• VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

In general only AggregatePortsGroup is available in P&T of APM (Availability and Performance Manager) domain, however, in some cases user would like to add aggregateinterface in P&T threshold tab.

Environment

Smarts - 10.1.x

TCSA - 2.x 

Smarts-DM - 2.x

Resolution

• Login to server where APM/CM (IP-Configuration Manager) is running, navigate to bin and run ./sm_edit conf/health/setting.conf.
• This will open setting.conf in local directory, add below on top of or above the 'AggregatePort Threshold configurations' section.

##########################################################
#
# AggregateInterface Threshold configurations
#
##########################################################

threshold category AggregateInterface  AggregateInterfacesGroup

config  AggregateInterface

• Load the change to CM as ./dmctl -s <APM/CM> invoke ICF_PolicyManager::ICF-PolicyManager loadSettings "APM/CM_BASE>/smarts/local/conf/health/settings.conf" | tee
• Reconfigure the domain.

NOTE: User can pass setting as per their requirement.