HP Web Jetadmin Software manual Deleting Devices from Device Lists, Refreshing Devices

Deleting Devices from Device Lists

You can delete any device from a device list.

If you delete a device from a device list, HP Web Jetadmin removes the device from all of the maps and permanently deletes all of the map information about that device.

To delete devices from device lists, perform the following steps:

1.From the left navigation pane, access any device list.

2.Highlight the device or devices to delete and right-click to select Delete.

3.Select one of the following options:

Function	Removes devices from	Removes historical and task	Will be rediscovered the
	device lists	data	next time a discovery is
			performed
Hide	Yes	No	Yes
Delete	Yes	Yes	Yes
Delete and block	Yes	Yes	No. If you delete devices from
			the Blocked Devices list,
			HP Web Jetadmin discovers
			the devices again the next
			time a discovery runs.

4.Click OK.

Refreshing Devices

From any device list, you can refresh devices or the display of a device.

Refresh Selection: This device list feature is available for either single or multiple devices. Right-click your selection or use F5 to activate this feature. When Refresh Selection is activated, HP Web Jetadmin client will request all device data the client is currently tracking for those devices directly from the devices even if the data within the database is not expired. There may be a short delay in the data change on your device list depending on number of devices in the selection. After Refresh Selection is finished, all of the data within your device list should appear very close to data that actually exists on the devices that were selected when the feature was activated. Data on devices, such as page counts, can change quickly so there is really never a guarantee that data is absolutely accurate. After the refresh is finished, normal polling and data threshold behavior will continue.

Refresh Selection (Full): This device list feature is only available on a single device selection. Right-click your selection and choose Refresh Selection (Full) to activate this feature. When Refresh Selection (Full) is activated, HP Web Jetadmin effectively clears all device based data and then re-retrieves those data elements important to Discovery. If the device is the same device, all data elements used to identify the device are kept the same and the device uniqueness attributes that are internal to this copy of

HP Web Jetadmin are also kept the same. After this discovery action has finished (for either a changed or existing device) the same refresh action is performed as the Refresh Selection feature. In other words, all of the device data that the client is currently tracking for those devices which be requested directly from the devices because the data has been invalidated in the HP Web Jetadmin database tables. If the device is not the same (it does not have the same uniqueness identifiers) HP Web Jetadmin will do exactly what occurs during a new device discovery; HP Web Jetadmin will register a new unique device into device data tables. The old device will remain as well, but the new device will be activated, leaving the old device in Communication Error state. The old device, should it be found on a new IP address, can be activated again once

HP Web Jetadmin begins to communicate with it.

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