Delete A Device From The Network Inventory; Import Inventory File - Extreme Networks ISM Provision User Manual

1 From the Network Inventory view, select the device listing to modify
2 Select the Modify Device... button to launch the Modify wizard
3 Make changes to the listing
For details about the fields in this Modify wizard, see the step, "Enter the
Administrator Login, and Administrator Password, Device Folder, and
Communicator Host", from the task, "Add a Device to the Network Inventory".
4 Select Finish

Delete a Device from the Network Inventory

Deleting a device from the network inventory does not remove the device from ISM
Provision. When you delete a device from the network inventory, you are unmanaging
the device. ISM Provision stops synchronizing the device and the device configuration
stored in the ISM Provision server. If you delete a device from the network inventory,
you will still see the device in the Network Provision view of NIM. See the section,
"Managed and Unmanaged Devices", in Chapter 4, "Network Provisioning", for more
information about managed and unmanaged devices.
Steps. To delete a device from the network inventory:
1 From the Network Inventory view, select the device to delete
2 Select the Delete Device button
When you select the Delete Device button, a window appears and asks, "Are you
sure you want to delete..."
3 Select Delete

Import Inventory File

An inventory file contains information about a list of devices. The information is similar
to that which you specify when performing the task, "Add a Device to the Network
Inventory". The inventory file contains: the device name, IP address, administrator
account, and administrator password. This file contains only the information necessary
to manage a device, and not configuration information.
If you have a large number of existing devices, it may be more efficient to create an
inventory file containing this information for your network, rather than adding the
devices individually. The recommended way to create an inventory file is to add two
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