Connect Domain Managers to SAM or OI Domains via CLI

Products

• Network Observability
• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Steps to connect the  Domain Managers (AMPM , NPM ..etc) to SAM or OI Domains via CLI

Environment

All Supported Smarts versions

Resolution

In this example, we will learn to import INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME of type INCHARGE-AM-PM-SUITE. 

Note: These parameters are user-specific and one may modify these according to their requirements

• We export the existing configuration to an XML file using the following command:

./sm_config -s <SAM/OI Domain> export -k <Domain>.xml

NOTE: The OI domain configuration is placed under the path: SAM/smarts/local/conf/icoi/ and SAM domain configuration is placed under the path: SAM/smarts/local/conf/ics
 ##Example output expected from this: XML data exported to : /<BaseDir>/smarts/local/conf/icoi/<Domain>.xml

•  Then we add the configuration entry to this XML file at two instances: 
  • domaintype where we add our AMPM domain to existing domain type of INCHARGE-AM-PM-SUITE. You may choose to create new by adding a new entry of domain type similar to the below tags:

    <domaintype MinimumCertainty="0" SmoothingInterval="65" attachTime="6000" detachTime="1800" dxaConfFile="dxa-sysip.conf" enable="TRUE" name="INCHARGE-AM-PM-SUITE" timeOut="600" timeOutBE="-1" timeOutFE="-1" timestamp="<epoch time>">
      <description>Domain type for AM, PM or AM-PM</description>
      <!-- Pre-Existing Default Domain name INCHARGE-AM-PM-->
      <domainname>INCHARGE-AM-PM</domainname>     
      <!--  To add a Domain Manager to type INCHARGE-AM-PM-SUITE -->
      <!-- Start 1 -->
      <domainname>INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME</domainname>
       <!-- End 1 -->
    </domaintype>

•  domain where we add our INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME domain definition to the type INCHARGE-AM-PM-SUITE. User may choose to map this to newly created domain type (if any defined):

     <!-- To add a Domain Manager -->
     <!-- Start 2 -->
     <domain autoTopoSyncEnabled="TRUE" domaintypename="INCHARGE-AM-PM-SUITE" enable="TRUE" name="INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME" timestamp="<Epoch time>">
       <description>AM, PM or AM-PM domain</description>INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME
     </domain>
     <!-- End 2 -->

• Import this updated configuration back to the domain using

sm_config -s <SAM/OI Domain> import --force <Domain>.xml

• Reconfigure the OI domain to create the drivers for this newly added domain:
  

dmctl -s <SAM/OI Domain> invoke DomainConfigHandler::Domain-ConfigHandler reconfigure

• Verify the drivers created:
  

dmctl -s <SAM/OI Domain> geti GA_DaemonDriver | grep -i “INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME”
INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME_Event-Driver
INCHARGE-DOMAIN-NAME_Topo-Driver

Additional Information

To load the configuration on domain start-up instead of export / import functions, the default XML files to modify are :

• SAM Domain:   <Base-SAM-Dir>/smarts/conf/ics/ics-default.xml
• OI Domain:      <Base-SAM-Dir>/smarts/conf/ics/icoi-default.xml

Note: Please use sm_edit to modify the files accordingly.