Approving multiple devices

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Devices must be approved by the manager before they are added to the system.

Before you begin

Attention: Any time a device is added or a vault, site, cabinet, or an administration configuration is changed, the Manager device must be backed up by navigating to Settings > Operations > Backup Manually . Permanent data loss can occur if the Manager database becomes corrupted. Periodic backups must also be performed to preserve historical statistics and log information. For details, click the Settings tab, and navigate to Operations > Backup Configuration.

Procedure

  1. Any user who wants their devices to be on file for engine type or storage format must select File from the Engine Storage drop-down. This step must be done first before they can select their devices.
    Note: This step should only be done when someone wants to override the system default engine zone.
  2. Click the check boxes next to the device Hostname column to approve that device, from the list of Devices Pending Approval on the bottom of the Configure page.
  3. Click Bulk Approve/Deny.
    After the devices are selected for approval, the device registration screen appears.
  4. Review the security key fingerprint information for the devices to ensure that the registration is from a trusted source.
    For bulk approvals, you can select individual or all devices.
  5. Click Approve, Deny, or Cancel from either action bar.
    After the devices are approved, a menu for site assignment appears.
  6. Click Deny to remove the device from the pending list.

    If a Device is Denied, the device must be reinitialized from the IBM Appliance Configuration utility before it can be Approved. (For more information, see Configuring appliances).

    It is necessary to rerun manager ip {ip-address} (or manager ip_ipv6 {ip-address}), where {ip-address} is the IP address from the denied device.

    Note: The only choice is to approve all or deny all. If only a subset of the devices needs approval, click Cancel.
  7. Associate devices with sites by checking one or more devices and selecting the site to which they belong.
    During bulk operations, the approved devices are displayed at the top of the Settings > Devices > Device Site page, and a list of sites appear at the bottom.
    Note: If multi-node devices need approval, selecting a node automatically selects all other nodes in the same chassis.
  8. Click Save to confirm the mapping of devices to sites.
    As devices are associated with sites, they are removed from the device list at the top of the page.
  9. Continue associating devices with sites until complete.

    Multiple devices can be selected by checking the check boxes to the left of each site.

    After all bulk devices are assigned to a site, an alias can be set for each device in its adjacent text box.

  10. Verify that the devices are added on the summary section under the devices tab and that the device summary count is updated accurately.
  11. Click Save.

    Setting an alias for each device is optional. For either approval method, the device displays an inactive state until polling is completed. It takes less than 1 minute.

    The Device Alias page is shown.