Users Guide

Delete devices from OpenManage Enterprise
The following steps describe how to delete and offboard the discovered devices in OpenManage Enterprise.
NOTE:
● To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based
operational access to the devices. See, Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
● A device on which a profile is assigned cannot be deleted unless the profile is unassigned from it. For more information,
see Unassign profiles on page 102.
● A device can be deleted even when tasks are running on it. Any tasks initiated on a device fails if the device is deleted
before the completion of the tasks.
To delete the discovered devices:
1. Go to the All Devices page by clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Devices.
2. From the devices list, select the check boxes corresponding to the devices that you want to delete.
3. Click the More Actions drop-down menu and click Delete Devices.
4. At the prompt indicating that the devices will be deleted and offboarded from OpenManage Enterprise, click YES.
The selected devices are entirely removed from OpenManage Enterprise. After device deletion, all onboarding information
corresponding to the deleted devices is removed. The user credential information is automatically deleted if it is not shared with
other devices. If OpenManage Enterprise was set as a trap destination on the device that is deleted, then you must remove
OpenManage Enterprise console IP as a trap destination from the device.
Related information
Organize devices into groups on page 52
Exclude devices from OpenManage Enterprise
Devices are discovered and grouped in OpenManage Enterprise for efficient handling of repeated tasks such as firmware
updates, configuration updates, inventory generation, and alert monitoring. However, you can also exclude the devices from
all OpenManage Enterprise discovery, monitoring, and management activities. The following steps describe how to exclude the
already discovered devices from OpenManage Enterprise.
NOTE:
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-
based operational access to the devices. See Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
1. Go to the All Devices page by clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Devices.
2. In the left pane, select the system group or the custom group whose device must be excluded.
3. In the devices list, select the check box corresponding to the device(s), and then from Discovery drop-down menu and click
Exclude Devices.
4. At the prompt indicating that the devices will be entirely removed and added to the Global-Exclusion list, click YES.
The devices are excluded, added to the global exclusion list, and not anymore monitored by OpenManage Enterprise.
NOTE:
To remove the device from global exclusion and to make OpenManage Enterprise monitor the device again, you
must remove the devices from the global exclusion range, and then rediscover.
Run inventory on devices
The following steps describe how you can initiate inventory collection on the discovered devices.
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based
operational access to the devices. See Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15
1. Go to the All Devices page by clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Devices.
2. From the devices' list, select the check box corresponding to the devices.
3. From the Inventory drop down, click Run Inventory on Devices.
An Inventory job is created for the selected devices' inventory collection. You can view the status of this job on the Inventory
page (OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Inventory).
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