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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
Removing devices from physical groups
33 Managing physical grouping of infrastructure devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
6 Removing devices from physical groups
This section explains about how to remove devices from rack physical groups. This is important when you
are decommissioning the devices in a data center.
1. Click PLUGIN GROUPS > Physical Hierarchy > Rack > Manage Rack option to Manage Rack.
2. Locate the device that you want to move using the vertical scroll bar of the rack and select the
device(s).
6.1 Removing a device from a rack
This operation is to remove a device from a rack after it is decommissioned.
1. Click PLUGIN GROUPS > Physical Hierarchy > Rack > Manage Rack option to Manage Rack.
Manage rack with selected device(s)
2. Click Remove Device(s) From Rack.
3. In the confirmation page, click Yes. The devices are removed from the rack.
Remove Device(s) – confirmation box
The API to remove a device from rack is:
https://<IP>/api//PowerService/PhysicalGroups/Actions/PhysicalGroup.RemoveMemberDevices
For more information about the Power Manager APIs, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
API document available on the support site.
Note: If you have applied an Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) on the device or a group, then you
cannot remove the device or group from Power Manager.