Editing A Group - IBM eServer 130 xSeries User Reference Manual

5. Click to enable reprovisioning and complete the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
6. Click Finish.
When groups are defined, go to "Using the Assigned by First Matching Group
function" on page 39 or "Moving an appliance server into a group" on page 39. When
finished, you can go to the appliance Web page to complete the appliance server
configuration process (see "Starting UMS using the Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility" on page 43). You can then use the Advanced Appliance
Configuration utility to edit groups, move appliances, or you can use other features of
the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility such as reprovisioning.

Editing a group

You can modify a group and enable reprovisioning for a group using the edit group
feature. If you edit a group and make changes to the host name or DNS domain
name, you need to start the appliance server again for the changes to take effect. To
make changes to an existing group, do the following:
1. From the Groups listed in Search order list, highlight the group that you want to
2. Open the Group menu, and click Edit Group. Make the changes that you want.
Domain Name
Enter the DNS domain name to assign to appliance servers. On
Windows systems this is known as the DNS Suffix Search. This field is
optional.
setup information. To reprovision your appliance servers from the FTP server,
complete the following fields:
Remote Host Name
This is the host name or IP address of the FTP server.
Remote Directory
This is the directory to use on the FTP server for reprovisioning images.
FTP User Name
This is the username to use when logging into the FTP server.
FTP Password
This is the password to use when logging into the FTP server.
change.
You can edit any field for the group except the group type.
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