To disable resource and environment discovery and monitoring for F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer:

  1. At the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory, type the following command:

    sm_edit conf/esm/esm-param.conf
  2. Type FALSE for the LoadBalancerResourceDiscoveryEnabled and the LoadBalancerEnvironmentDiscoveryEnabled parameters. For example:

    #LoadBalancerEnvironmentDiscoveryEnabled # Set to TRUE to enable discovery of # Fan, TemperatureSensor, PowerSupply, VoltageSensor # via SNMP for Loadbalancer only. Not applicable to WMI discovery. LoadBalancerEnvironmentDiscoveryEnabled FALSE #LoadBalancerResourceDiscoveryEnabled # Set to TRUE to discover Processor, FileSystem, Disk and Memory. # via SNMP for Loadbalancer only. Not applicable to WMI discovery. LoadBalancerResourceDiscoveryEnabled FALSE
  3. Save and close the file.

  4. Reload the esm-param.conf file on the running ESM server. At the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory, type:

    ./sm_esmctl -s <ESM_Domain_Manager> --load-conf=esm-param.conf