Creating A Family; Removing Appliances From Families - IBM eServer xSeries 135 Installation Manual

• Conflicting Network Addresses
Any discovered appliance server that has the same IP address as a previously
discovered appliance server will be listed in the Conflicting Network Addresses
group.

Creating a family

To create a family:
1. Click Create Family from the Family menu.
The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility Family Setup window appears.
2. Select the Appliance Family Rules.
The Appliance Family Rules determine what purpose an appliance must serve to
be included in the family. You can select one of the following values:
• IBM xSeries 150
• IBM xSeries 130 and 135
3. Type a name that will be used for this family in the Family Name field.
4. Assign network resources for members of the family.
5. Select a host name allocation type.
The host name allocation type enables you to automatically specify a specific host
name that members of this Family will use. You can select one of the following
host name allocation types:
No Allocation
No preconfigured host name format will be assigned to appliances that
are members of the family.
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 this Family.

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 removing 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, and then click Remove Appliance
from the pop-up menu.
• 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.
Chapter 4. Appliance configuration programs
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