Making devices available for maintenanceEdit online Make devices available for maintenance so that network engineers can work on known device problems. About this taskThe following topics describe how to put devices and their components into and out of unmanaged state. Unmanaging devices and componentsPlace a device or its components into unmanaged state so that engineers can work on the device to resolve a problem.Taking devices and components out of unmanaged statePlace a device or any of its components back into managed state once the device problem has been resolved and you wish to receive events for this device once again.Parent topic: Supporting problem resolution