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5. Enable the Enable secure mode checkbox if you want the managed appliance to only be
accessible by this DSView system. In non-secure mode, the managed appliance may be
added to multiple DSView systems.
6. If you enable the Allow target devices with the same name to be merged into a single
target device checkbox, by default, the connection to a target device in the appliance will
be merged with the connection(s) to an existing target device in the DSView database.
Successful or failed automatic discovery generates a DSView event.
Automatic Inheritance for Group Memberships and Properties
You can allow new target devices to inherit group memberships and some properties from the
appliances to which the target devices are attached. Only location, contacts, notes and custom
field properties are inherited. For information about assigning properties to a unit, see Unit
Properties on page 158.
To enable automatic inheritance:
1. Click the System tab.
2. Click Global Properties in the top navigation bar.
3. Click Automatic Inheritance in the side navigation bar.
4. To allow new target devices to inherit group membership and properties from the
appliance, select Allow new target devices to inherit the group memberships and
properties from the corresponding appliance.
5. Click Save.
When automatic inheritance is enabled, the following occurs:
• When you use the Add Unit Wizard to add an appliance, you can specify the group for
which you want the appliance to belong. Attached target devices will inherit these group
memberships. Or, you can select Do not inherit group membership. See Adding a single
managed appliance on page 131. Properties are not inherited at this time because the new
appliance does not yet have any properties assigned.
• When new attached target devices are discovered using automatic topology
synchronization, the Resync Wizard or the update topology task, the new target devices
inherit group memberships and location, contacts, notes and custom field properties from
the appliance. For more information about these operations, see Automatic topology
synchronization on page 147, Resynchronizing units on page 354 and Task: Update
topology for selected units on page 372.
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