Error When Replacing a Device With a Different Type but the Same Name (5002041)

You defined a device with a specific type in an active server farm (for example, an x86 farm with the name “Server1”). You want to change the type (for example, to sparc), but keep the name. If you fail to commit the delete request before you add the new device, the add request fails with an unique constraint exception, stating that there is another device in the farm that has the same name.

Workaround: You have to do the removal and addition in two separate updates. Follow these steps:

1. Activate a one-server x86 farm from the Control Center (CC). For example, with the name "Server1" with eth0 connected to a subnet.

2. After the farm is activated, log onto the CC and delete the x86 server.

3. Submit the farm to commit this change.

4. Add a SPARC Solaris server that has the same name ("Server1").

5. Commit the change (send the update request) from the CC.