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 to
    IP 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.”