HP OneView manual Tasks, About enclosures, Connectivity and synchronization with the appliance

17.2Roles

•Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Server administrator

17.3Tasks

The appliance online help provides information about using the UI or the REST APIs to:

•Add an enclosure to manage its contents.

•Remove an enclosure from management.

•Add a server blade to an existing enclosure.

•Remove a server blade from an existing enclosure.

•Bring an unmanaged enclosure under management.

•Claim an enclosure currently being managed by another appliance.

•Forcibly remove an enclosure if a remove action fails.

•Resolve connectivity issues between an enclosure and the appliance.

•View activities (alerts and tasks).

•Create an enclosure group.

•Edit an enclosure group.

•Delete an enclosure group.

17.4About enclosures

An enclosure is a physical structure that can contain server blades, infrastructure hardware, and interconnects.

The enclosure provides the hardware connections between the interconnect downlinks and the installed server blades.

You add an enclosure so that its contents can be managed, enabling you to apply configurations, deploy server profiles, monitor operation status, collect statistics, and alert users to specific conditions.

When you add an enclosure, you specify an enclosure group. Enclosure groups enable you to maintain configuration consistency among enclosures. Each enclosure group is associated with a logical interconnect group that enables creation and configuration of a logical interconnect. Each enclosure is associated with a logical interconnect, which represents the configuration of all interconnects in the enclosure.

Connectivity and synchronization with the appliance

The appliance monitors the connectivity status of enclosures. If the appliance loses connectivity with an enclosure, a notification is displayed until connectivity is restored. The appliance attempts resolve connectivity issues and clears the alert automatically, but if it is unsuccessful, you must resolve the issue and manually refresh the enclosure to synchronize it with the appliance.

The appliance also monitors enclosures to ensure that they are synchronized with changes to hardware and configuration settings. However, some changes to enclosures made outside of the appliance (from iLO or the OA (Onboard Administrator), for example) might cause the enclosure to lose synchronization with the appliance. You might have to manually refresh devices that lose synchronization with the appliance.

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