smarts discovery

We have been releasing solutions that we use in the field as open source tools available for the community. Last couple of weeks we have released Smarts Trap Processing Monitor and Smarts Discovery Reporter. Both of these solutions were built on top of RapidWatcher independently, hence had conflicts (Thanks for the heads up Karl!)

The latest release of RapidWatcher includes the necessary files for both these solutions as part of the RapidWatcher package. Discovery Reporter is active but Trap processing Monitor is inactive by default. Of course, you can turn on Smarts Trap Monitor by following the directions in the previous post about it.  read more »

Discovery process is one of the routine Smarts administration tasks. Smarts Availability Manager (AM) Discovery can be initiated ad-hoc from the Smarts Domain Manager Administration Console (requires administrator level access) or can be scheduled to run periodically, off hours, etc. when the network is less utilized.

To analyze the results of the discovery can be a time consuming task for administrators (and not feasible without administrative access) since it requires checking verbose log files, discovery pending list, notifications, etc.

Smarts Discovery Reporter has been developed to help interested parties to easily access and analyze the results of the Smarts discovery process without requiring admin level access to the Smarts system. Smarts Discovery Reporter is implemented on top of the RapidWatcher and mainly does the following:

• Monitors the Smarts AM servers and detects when Smarts discovery is run.  read more »