Enabling overlapping IP address discovery
This procedure is not applicable for
IP Availability Manager
versions 8.1.x and higher. The VPNIP attribute has been deprecated in release 8.1.x and 9.x. Refer to the Route Distinguisher (RD) IP tagging policy configuration procedures in the IP Manager Concepts Guide.By default,
IP Availability Manager
releases prior to version 8.1.x are not enabled to perform overlapping IP address discovery. To enable this feature, set the following parameters inIP Availability Manager
’s tpmgr-param.conf file to the shown values:DisableOverlappingIP FALSE UseVPNIP FALSE EnableShadowIP TRUE (default)
To enable overlapping IP discovery:
- Go to the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory in theIP Managerinstallation area and type the following command to open the tpmgr-param.conf file:sm_edit conf/discovery/tpmgr-param.conf
- Set the following three parameters to the values shown:DisableOverlappingIP FALSEUseVPNIP FALSEEnableShadowIP TRUE
- Save and close the file.The modified version of the tpmgr-param.conf file is saved to the BASEDIR/smarts/local/conf/discovery directory.
- IfIP Availability Managerwas running before you edited the tpmgr-param.conf file, type the following command from BASEDIR/smarts/bin to make your change take effect:sm_tpmgr -s<IP Availability Managerinstance name>--load-conf=tpmgr-param.conf