ASAP Migration Guide for NSX and OMF Users

ASAP Installation and Configuration
ASAP Migration Guide for NSX and OMF Users—520627-001
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Batch Configuration
Process \Asap
Off - $Funds
On - $Xyz
+ COMMIT
The ASAP COMMIT command allows massive reconfiguration of objectives without
forcing SGPs to incur overhead for each configuration change in the Objectives DB.
When you use COMMIT, the SGPs pick up all your configuration changes at the next
sample interval. The next statistics sample reflects those changes.
The same dynamic configuration concept applies when you set objectives. (For more
information on setting objectives, see DOTs and EMS Events
on page 3-1.) The ASAP
RANK command also requires use of the COMMIT command for the SGPs to pick up
the changes from the Objectives DB.
Batch Configuration
General batch configuration is possible in NSX, OMF, and ASAP 2.0. These products
all have a command interpreter that executes in batch any input file with a list of
commands. This is useful if you must schedule configuration changes to automatically
occur at a specific time.
OMFCOM, the OMF command interpreter, has an OBEYFORM option on its INFO
command. You used this option to output the current configuration of one or more
objects or object types. The resulting output followed OMFCOM syntax, so you could
later use it as input to OMFCOM and reconfigure OMF as it was before.
ASAP 2.0 follows the OMF model. Both the ASAP MONITOR and ASAP RANK
commands offer the OBEYFORM option. Use this option to create a list of domains or
objectives following ASAP syntax:
+monitor disk, obeyform
Monitor Disk \Asap.$Br, Add
Monitor Disk \Asap.$Co, Add
Monitor Disk \Asap.$Dsv, Add
Monitor Disk \Asap.$Mc, Add
Monitor Disk \Asap.$Mm, Add
Monitor Disk \Asap.$Rtool1, Add
Monitor Disk \Asap.$System, Add, Off
+rank expand, obeyform
Rank Expand \Asap.$Lhcorp2, Pktsnt < 10000
Rank Expand \Asap.$Lhdome, Pktsnt < 55
Rank Expand \Asap.$Lhdome, Pktrvd < 55
+
You can use these outputs later as input to ASAP to reconfigure the domains and
objectives as they were, or edit these commands to create a new set of objectives.
Objectives DB
The list of domains to be monitored is stored in the Objectives DB database. When you
shut down ASAP and restart it, all your previously configured domains are monitored.
This database also contains the list of attribute objectives for monitored domains, as
discussed in DOTs and EMS Events on page 3-1.