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Unmanaging a switch

You can remove a switch from management by Lenovo XClarity Administrator. This process is called unmanaging.

Before you begin

You can enable XClarity Administrator to automatically unmanage devices that are offline for a specific amount of time. This is disabled by default. To enable the automatic unmanagment of offline devices, click Hardware > Discover and Manage New Devices from the XClarity Administrator menu, and then click Edit next to Unmanage offline devices is Disabled. Then, select Enable unmanage offline devices and set the time interval. By default, devices are unmanaged after being offline for 24 hours.

Before you unmanage a switch, ensure that there are no active jobs running against the switch.

About this task

When you unmanaged a switch, XClarity Administrator retains certain information about the switch. That information is reapplied when you manage the same switch again.

Tip
All demo devices that are optionally added during initial setup are nodes in a chassis. To unmanage the demo devices, unmanage the chassis using the Force unmanage even if the device is not reachable option.

Procedure

To unmanaged a switch, complete the following steps.

  1. From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Hardware > Switches to display the Switches page.
  2. Select one or more switches from the lists of managed switch.
  3. Click Unmanage Switch. The Unmanage dialog is displayed.
  4. Optional: Select Force unmanage even if the device is not reachable.
    Important
    When unmanaging demo hardware, ensure that you select this option.
  5. Click Unmanage.
    The Unmanage dialog shows the progress of each step in the unmanagement process.
  6. When the unmanagement process is complete, click OK.