Taking ownership of a device

Devices that have a configuration status of Discovered are devices that were configured during the initial install or extension process and not added manually. The user has limited abilities to modify these devices. When the need arrises to edit the attributes of these devices, the user must first take ownership of the device.

Before taking ownership of a device, the user should be familiar with the concept of locked/unlocked networks. Before editing or deleting any device that belongs to a locked network, the network must be unlocked. See Locking and Unlocking a Network for more information.

Note:

Not all devices must belong to a network. For example, primary interfaces with a state of Discovered may not belong to a network.

The process of taking ownership of a device and then editing or deleting that device slightly differs depending on whether or not that device currently belongs to a locked network. See Editing a Device for more information.

Before taking ownership of a discovered device, the device has a configuration status of Discovered; Locked. Edit and Delete are disabled. Immediately after taking ownership of the device, the configuration status temporarily changes to Configured and then Pending. Within a few minutes, the device should transition to its final configuration status of Deployed. If the device belonged to a locked network before taking ownership, the status displays as Deployed; Locked, otherwise it displays as Deployed; Unlocked.

Note:

Before taking ownership of a device, generate a device report. The device report serves as a record of the device's original settings. Print or save the device report for your records. For more information about generating a device report, see Generating a Device Report.

Use the following procedure to take ownership of a device.

1. Click Configuration, and then Networking, and then Devices.
2. Locate and select the desired server tab where the target device exists.
   Servers are presented in tabbed form. If the target server is not visible in the available screen space use the scroll right/left buttons located below the tool bar area and to the right or left of the visible tabs.
3. Click to select the device you want to take ownership of. Alternately, you can take ownership of multiple devices. Press and hold Ctrl and click to select more than one device.
   If one or more selected devices have a configuration status of something other than Discovered, the Take Ownership button is disabled. To take ownership of multiple devices at one time, all selected devices must have a configuration status of Discovered.
4. Click Take Ownership.
   The configuration status temporarily displays Configured, then Pending, and finally Deployed.

The devices are now available for editing or deleting. Take note of the lock status. A device cannot be edited or deleted while in the Locked state. See Locking and Unlocking a Network for details on changing the lock status.