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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Chapter 3 Adding and Troubleshooting Devices Using Device Management
Working With Pre-deployed Devices
Deleting the Suspended Devices
The devices in the Delete state cannot participate in any RME application flows. The Delete devices
historical data is not retained in the RME database. However, you can re-add the devices using Resource
Manager Essentials > Devices > Device Management > Add Devices.
The device information is retained in the Device and Credential Repository. This information is not
removed till you delete the device from Common Services > Device and Credentials > Device
Management.
To delete the Suspended devices:
Step 1 Select Resource Manager Essentials > Devices > Device Management > Suspended Devices.
Or
Select Resource Manager Essentials > Devices > Device Management and click on the Number of
Device column entry for the Suspended Device State.
The Suspended devices dialog box appears.
Step 2 Select the devices.
Step 3 Click Delete.
A confirmation dialog box appears.
Step 4 Click OK.
You can view the Deleted devices by navigating to Resource Manager Essentials > Devices > Device
Management > Add devices since these devices still exist in Device and Credential Repository.
Working With Pre-deployed Devices
In the Pre-deployed device state, the device has never been contacted by RME through protocols such as
SNMP, Telnet, SSH, etc. If RME successfully contacts the device through the tasks such as Inventory
polling, Configuration polling receiving syslog messages, etc., the device will move to a Normal state.
In the Pre-deployed device state, there is no successful inventory or configuration collection for the
device.
The Pre-deployed device state indicates that the devices are not in the network and are waiting to be
deployed.
The Pre-deployed devices appear in the RME device selector as a separate group. These devices also
appear under the appropriate MDF-based groups, depending on the Device Type information that you
have entered in the Device and Credential Repository (Common Services > Device and Credentials >
Device Management).
You can perform application tasks (including jobs) on Pre-deployed devices in the same way as you do
with the Normal state devices.
However, for Pre-deployed devices you cannot run application tasks such as Distribution By devices
[Basic] job, Distribution By image job, etc. This is because the information needed for such tasks will
be available only after RME contacts the devices.
For example, Software Management Distribution By devices [Advanced] job succeeds. This is because
no data (either current or cached) is needed from the device for this task.