Configuration overview
For an
IP Availability Manager
in a deployment, an administrator performs the standard configuration tasks that are presented in the VMware Smart Assurance IP Manager
documentation to prepare the IP Availability Manager
application for SNMP discovery.The administrator also performs the following additional configuration tasks to prepare
IP Availability Manager
for operation in a deployment:- Enables protocol light discovery (mandatory).
- Enables overlapping IP address discovery (optional).
- Creates CLI device-access groups to enable to perform CLI discovery and polling of devices that cannot be discovered or monitored by using SNMP (mandatory if EIGRP- or IS-IS-enabled Cisco devices are to be managed by ).
- Configures SNMP trap integration to distribute network traps toIP Availability Manager(mandatory).This chapter provides the background and the instructions for completing all but the last task. The instructions for completing the last task are presented in Chapter 6, “Configuring SNMP Trap Integration.”