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Table Of Contents
- 1 Creating physical groups
- 2 Editing physical groups
- 3 Adding devices in physical groups
- 4 Creating physical group through CSV file
- 5 Reorganizing devices in physical groups
- 6 Removing devices from physical groups
- 7 Visualizing Headroom and Underutilized Racks
- 8 Visualizing racks of physical groups
- 9 Deleting physical groups
- 10 Physical group reports
- 11 Conclusion
- 12 Technical support and resources
Reorganizing devices in physical groups
30 Managing physical grouping of infrastructure devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
5 Reorganizing devices in physical groups
This section is about how to move devices within a rack or across racks to reflect physical movements in
data center. To keep physical structures up to date in the console to get accurate results.
5.1 Moving devices within a rack
This operation is to keep the physical group structure aligned to the data center when a device is
physically moved from one rack slot to another.
1. Click PLUGIN GROUPS > Physical Hierarchy > Rack > Manage Rack option to Manage Rack.
2. Click Rearrange Rack. The Update Rack Slots page is displayed.
Manage rack with selected devices
3. To change the slot for a device, click the drop-down menu and select an empty slot.
Update rack slots
4. Click Finish. The device slot is updated.
The API to update physical group member rack slots is:
https://<IP>/api/PowerService/PhysicalGroups/Actions/PhysicalGroup.UpdateSlots
For more information about the Power Manager APIs, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
API document available on the support site.