What is the significance of 'timestamp' property in DMS.xml configuration?
<DMS errorTime="30000">
<DMA ip="10.12.11.1" id="111" timestamp=""/>
</DMS>
DMS.xml | DataMiner Docs has few examples of configuration that shows 'timestamp' and it would be useful to know the purpose of defining this.
Thanks.
The timestamp attribute on the <DMA> tag is intended to automatically be updated. There's no need to manually fill out this attribute or even include it when manually making changes to DMS.xml.
On DataMiner startup, all these attributes will be cleared out anyway, to be filled out again once connection is established with that remote agent. The attribute thus shows the most recent time where DataMiner set up connection with that remote agent on the SLDMS level.
For completion: the <Cluster> tag also has a timestamp attribute. This one indicates when the agent was added to the cluster and is used to decide the direction of the initial sync (when adding an agent to the cluster).