Moving An Appliance Server Into A Group; Removing Appliance Servers From Groups; Using The Assigned By First Matching Group Function - IBM eServer 130 xSeries User Reference Manual

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Moving an appliance server into a group

To move an appliance server into a group, do the following:
1. Using the mouse, select the appliance icon. When you drag the icon, it changes
2. Drag the appliance icon into the group that you want. You can drop the appliance
If the group is configured to manage network settings and there is an IP address
available from the IP address range of the group, the Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility automatically configures the network settings of the appliance
server. Otherwise, the network settings are not configured by the Advanced
Appliance Configuration Utility and no changes are made. If you need to make
changes to the settings for your appliance server after it is assigned to a group, see
"Editing appliance server settings" on page 40.

Removing appliance servers from groups

Use the remove appliance option to delete an appliance from the Advanced Appliance
Configuration Utility console database. Removing an appliance server that is no
longer in use enables the IP address that was assigned to the appliance server to be
allocated to another appliance server. You can also remove an appliance server from
a group and then rescan the network to add it to an appropriate group that appears
higher in the group list.
Note: If the appliance server you are trying to delete does not respond when you
To remove an appliance server, highlight and right-click the appliance server; then,
from the menu, click Remove Appliance.

Using the Assigned by First Matching Group function

The Assigned by First Matching Group function enables you to set appliance servers
to join the first matching group. You can move appliance servers to the group that you
want by using a drag-and-drop method or by right-clicking the unassigned appliance
server and then clicking Assign by First Matching Group. To assign an appliance
server to the first matching group, do the following:
1. Right-click the group to which you want to move the appliance server.
2. Click Move Up in List to move the selected group up in the list of groups.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until the group that you want to add the appliance server to
4. Right-click the appliance server icon that you want to move to another group, and
and displays where you can drop the appliance server.
icon when you are over the group name or the Assigned Appliances list that
belongs to the group.
highlight it and select delete, it is automatically deleted. However, if you
attempt to delete an active appliance server, a warning message displays.
appears above the group that currently contains the appliance server.
then click Assign by First Matching Group. The appliance server moves to the
group that it matches.
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