architecture
To understand the event
management capabilities and advantages that
VMware Smart Assurance
NOTIF provides in an
VMware Smart Assurance
implementation, it is important to understand the
architecture and the
standard
VMware Smart Assurance
trap processing design.
Standard Smarts Service Assurance Manager
Adapter Platform architecture is an example of a basic SAM configuration. The
Adapter Platform
imports topology and event information from third-party applications and prepares it for
use by the Service Assurance Manager
. Data from third-party applications should not be sent
directly to SAM. The Adapter Platform
creates notifications from the incoming information and can even associate these
notifications to topology information supplied by another VMware Smart Assurance
application, such as the IP Availability Manager
as shown in Standard Smarts Service Assurance Manager
Adapter Platform architecture. Standard
architecture

The
Adapter Platform
consists of the SNMP Trap Adapter
,
as shown in Standard Smarts Service Assurance Manager
Adapter Platform architecture. The SNMP Trap Adapter
parses SNMP traps received and generates notifications based on the contents of the
traps. The SNMP Trap Adapter
can receive SNMP v1, v2c, or v3 traps. However, it forwards only v1 or v2c traps. If
SNMPv3 traps are received, they are converted to one of the other formats before being
sent to a domain manager or to another trap receiver. The
provides
details on the
Adapter Platform
.
The
SNMP Trap Adapter
can be configured to handle many different types of traps
through two configuration files associated with the
SNMP Trap Adapter
:
- trapd.conf ” This is the configuration file for theVMware Smart AssuranceSNMP Trap Adapter. This conf file determines what port number the trap adapter listens to for traps, and enables trap forwarding toVMware Smart Assurancedomain managers (like theIP Availability Manager) and theAdapter Platform.
- trap_mgr.conf ” This configuration file determines how specific traps are mapped into notifications that are sent to theGlobal Console.