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have been configured using a method other than the Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility and for which no appropriate family exists will appear in the
Orphaned Externally Configured Appliances group.
The Tree View pane contains the following items:
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All Appliances
Every discovered appliance is listed in the tree view under All Appliances.
Families
The Families group in the Tree View pane shows all families that have been
defined, with appliance servers that have already been assigned to each family
nested beneath the family name in the tree view. Families are defined by
appliance purpose so all appliances that appear in a given family are of the same
type. If you select a family from the Tree View pane, a description of the family
and the rules that are used to define the selected family are displayed in the
Information pane. If you select an appliance server from a family in the Tree
View pane, the selected appliance network settings are displayed in the
Information pane.
The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility automatically assigns one IP
address per appliance server, using available addresses within the range that is
defined in the family rules. When a Family IP address range has been exhausted,
the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility automatically searches for other
families that have rules matching the appliance server that is being configured.
If a matching family with an available address is found, the server will
automatically be assigned to the family that has available IP addresses. This
enables you to define multiple families, each of which uses a range of
noncontiguous IP address ranges.
When an appliance is discovered on the network, the Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility automatically searches all previously defined families,
starting with the first family listed in the families tree view and moving
downward. Appliances are automatically added to the first defined family that
matches the appliance purpose. Therefore, the order in which families appear is
important. To adjust this search order, right-click a family and then click Move
Up or Move Down to adjust its position within the families list.
Orphaned Appliances
Any discovered appliance servers that have been configured using the
Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility but do not meet the rules for any
existing family are automatically added to the Orphaned Appliances group.
Orphaned Externally Configured Appliances
Any discovered appliance server that has been configured without the
Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility tool and does not meet the rules for
any existing family is automatically added to the Orphaned Externally
Configured Appliances group. Appliance servers that are configured without
the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility and that meet the rules for any
existing family are automatically added to the matching family. To add an
orphaned externally configured appliance to an appropriate family that was
created after the orphaned appliance was discovered, right-click the orphaned
appliance and click Adopt by First Matching Family. For more information, see
"Using the Adopt by First Matching Family function" on page 26.
Note: The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility will not change
manually configured network settings of discovered appliance servers.
If the manually configured IP and subnet addresses fit an existing
family, the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility will place that
appliance server into that family but will not change any other settings
(such as host name or DNS or gateway addresses).