About certifying
managed devices
After your network has been
discovered, you might want to keep in your topology certain managed devices
that are not yet certified by VMware Corporation. Because no certification is
available for these devices, the IP Manager discovery process uses generic SNMP
MIB-II drivers to discover the devices, and models them as instances of the
Node class. You can, however, add such devices to a field certification file so
that the IP Manager properly recognizes these devices.
You can add managed devices to
the field certification file, oid2type_Field.conf, which is located in the
BASEDIR/smarts/conf/discovery directory. User-made changes to this file will
not be overwritten by subsequent IP Management Suite Service Packs.
Field-based certifications are
intended for certifying simple devices, or for certifying devices that are
clones of devices that have already been certified by VMware Corporation. Only
VMware field engineers, partners, or knowledgeable customers should add device
entries to the oid2type_Field.conf file.
Upon reading this section, you will know how to create
field-based certifications. You will also know how to read and parse the certifications
in any of the oid2type configuration files that are shipped with the IP Management
Suite. All oid2type files are located in the BASEDIR/smarts/conf/discovery directory.