By default, automatic topology synchronization with the underlying IP Availability Manager is enabled, meaning that VoIP Availability Manager automatically imports topology from IP Availability Manager whenever IP Availability Manager completes a discovery cycle.

In deployments where IP Availability Manager discovery takes place often, you can control when VoIP Availability Manager discovery takes place (for example, during off-peak hours). To do so, you can edit the voip.conf file to disable the automatic topology synchronization with IP Availability Manager and then use a scheduling mechanism like UNIX chrontab to invoke discovery in VoIP Availability Manager.

In the voip.conf file, to disable this behavior, the line to be edited is:

# AutoDiscover = FALSE

To disable automatic topology synchronization with IP Availability Manager:

  1. Go to the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory in the VoIP Availability Manager installation area and issue the following command to open the voip.conf file:

                   sm_edit conf/voip/voip.conf

  2. Find the following line and then uncomment the line (shown uncommented):

    AutoDiscover = FALSE

  3. Save and close the file. The modified version of the voip.conf file is saved to the BASEDIR/smarts/local/conf/voip directory.

  4. If VoIP Availability Manager was running before you edited the voip.conf file, restart VoIP Availability Manager.