Configuring the MCAST Manager

Configure the Multicast Manager to support communications with the IP Availability Manager.
  1. In the Multicast Manager installation area, at
    BASEDIR/MCAST/smarts/bin
    , issue the following command:
    sm_edit ../conf/mcast/multicast.conf
    .
  2. Locate the section,
    # InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM {
  3. Customize the INCHARGE-AM server name to match that in your deployment; for example,
    InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM { Type = "AM" DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM" DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM" } additional servers.
    If you are running multiple AM servers, add entries to correspond with the additional servers.
    The edited example, as shown below, adds a second INCHARGE-AM named INCHARGE-AM2.
    InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM { Type = "AM" DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM" DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM" } InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM2 { Type = "AM" DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM2" DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM2" }
  4. Restart the Multicast Manager.
    Multicast Manager configuration parameters
    : Following table lists the configuration parameters that you can adjust for your deployment.
    Parameter
    Type
    Description
    Values
    SNMP parameters
    SNMP_retries
    int
    Specifies the number of SNMP retries for discovery.
    Default is 2
    SNMP_timeout
    int
    Specifies the SNMP timeout interval for discovery.
    Default is 500
    Incremental discovery
    IpMrouteInterval
    int
    Defines the interval, in seconds, for the Multicast Manager server to sleep before starting to monitor for MROUTE changes.
    Default is 0
    When set to 0, the IPMROUTE Monitoring Junction is disabled altogether.
    IpMrouteThreads
    int
    Indicates the number of threads to use for IPMRoute Monitoring.
    Default is 1
    Excluded groups
    ExcludedGroupsList
    list
    Specifies IP addresses for groups to be excluded from discovery.
    {"224.0.1.39"}
    {"224.0.1.40"}
    NOTE: By default, the values are
    commented out.
    SG discovery
    CollapseSG
    Boolean
    Indicates whether to create distinct service groups.
    Boolean
    Default is FALSE
    • When set to TRUE, a distinct SG is created for each system and group pair. In addition, creation of SG instrumentation objects irrespective of Group_PollingSetting::AnalysisMode is disabled.
    • When set to FALSE, a distinct SG is created for each system, source, group and, possibly, interface id tuple.
    PIM Hop physical connectivity
    CollapsePIMHops
    Boolean
    Sets PIM Hop Physical Connectivity between local and remote devices.
    Boolean
    Default is FALSE
    When set to TRUE, the Multicast Manager only creates PIM Hops between local and remote devices if they share same Network connection.
    CLI-based discovery of Juniper devices
    CLIProhibit
    Boolean
    CLI-based discovery of Juniperdevices.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE
    When set to TRUE, CLI discovery isdisabled.
    CLIFilter
    string
    Wildcard used to select systems that will excluded from the CLIProhibit directive.
    Default is "*"
    CLIFilterType
    string
    Specifies value to use for discovery filtering for SNMPAgent.
    “CLI_AGENTADDRESS"
    Use one of the following:
    • CLI_AGENTADDRESS to filter based on agent address
    • CLI_SYSTEMNAME to filter based on system name.
    Tracing
    TraceMROUTEMonitoring
    Boolean
    Specifies whether MROUTE monitoring is traced.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE
    TraceSNMPInstrumentation
    Boolean
    Specifies whether SNMP polling is traced.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE
    TraceDiscovery
    Boolean
    Specifies whether discovery probes are traced.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE
    TraceEvents
    Boolean
    Specifies whether internal event subscriber.s are traced.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE
    TraceSetting
    Boolean
    Specifies whether settings are traced.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE
    Discovery
    AutoDiscover
    Boolean
    Indicates whether to start discovery immediately for all devices derived from AM, or to wait for manual invocation.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE.
    By default, the values arecommented out.
    IsSnmpProbingAllowed
    Boolean
    Specifies whether a device is added to the pending list upon detection of SG SNMP error, this allowing SNMP probing of the device.
    Boolean
    Default is TRUE (SNMP probing is
    allowed)
    DisableReconfigure
    Boolean
    Indicates whether to allow reconfiguration through the Domain Manager Administration Console.
    Boolean
    Default is FALSE.
    When set to TRUE, the reconfigure
    function is disabled.
    IsEMS
    Boolean
    When topology source is an EMS, sets external instrumentation.
    Boolean
    Default is FALSE
    When set to TRUE, EXTERNAL (stored)
    instrumentation is forced.