Removing Appliances From Families; Using The Adopt By First Matching Family Function - IBM eServer 135 xSeries User Reference Manual

Removing appliances from families

Use the Remove Appliance choice to delete an appliance from the Advanced
Appliance Configuration Utility console database. Removing an appliance that is no
longer in use enables the IP address that was assigned to the appliance to be allocated
to another appliance. You can also remove an appliance from a family and then rescan
the network to add it to an appropriate family that appears higher in the Tree View
pane.
To remove an appliance, right-click the appliance; then, click Remove Appliance from
the pop-up menu.
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Using the Adopt by First Matching Family
function
Use the Adopt by First Matching Family function to:
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Use Serial Number
The serial number of the discovered appliance will be used as a host
name for the appliance.
Use Prefix Name
A user-specified prefix, along with an incremental number for each
appliance, will be used for the host name of each appliance that is a
member of this family. Type the desired prefix in the Host Name Prefix
field.
6. Click OK to save the family.
If the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility is unable to communicate with
the selected appliance (because, for example, it has been removed from the
network or has failed), the appliance is removed immediately.
If the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility is able to communicate with
the selected appliance, you will be asked to confirm removal of the appliance
before the appliance-removal task is completed. This helps prevent accidental
removal of an active and functional appliance.
Add an Orphaned Externally Configured Appliance to an appropriate family.
Appliances that have been configured without using the Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility and that do not meet the rules for any existing family are
automatically added to the Orphaned Externally Configured Appliances group.
If, after the orphaned appliance is discovered, you create a family that is
appropriate for the orphaned appliance, right-click the orphaned appliance and
click Adopt by First Matching Family to move the appliance from the
Orphaned Externally Configured Appliances group to the newly created family.
Move an appliance from one Family to another appropriate Family that occurs
higher in the list of previously defined Families. If there is more than one
appropriate Family for a newly discovered appliance, it automatically appears
in the first appropriate Family in the list of Families. If you want to move a
discovered appliance from one appropriate Family to another appropriate
Family:
1. Right-click the family to which you want the appliance moved.
2. Click Move Up in List to move the selected family up in the list of families.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until the family that you want to add the appliance to
appears above the family that currently contains the appliance.
4. Right-click the appliance that you want to move to another family, and then
click Adopt by First Matching Family.