This section explains operations temporarily excluding the network devices from the target of monitoring or auto-configuration in order to perform operations such as regular maintenance of network devices configuring network devices, or configuring a network device as the target of monitoring or auto-configurations after regular maintenance completion.
Perform the following operations to configure or release the maintenance mode settings of network devices.
Configuring Maintenance Mode
When configuring maintenance mode for a network device, the network device will be excluded temporarily from the target of monitoring or auto-configuration.
Maintenance mode is configured for the specified network device, by using the commands to specify the -attr mode=maintenance option.
Releasing Maintenance Mode
A network device can be configured as the target of monitoring or auto-configuration, by releasing the maintenance mode configured for the network devices.
Maintenance mode is released for the specified network device, by using the commands to specify the -attr mode=active option.
Example
When configuring maintenance mode
# /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxadm netdevice set -name nd01 -attr mode=maintenance <RETURN> |
When releasing maintenance mode
# /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxadm netdevice set -name nd01 -attr mode=active <RETURN> |
The maintenance mode configuration status can be confirmed by using one of following methods:
From the GUI:
Click the network device to confirm in the network device tree.
Select the [Resource Details] tab.
Confirm the maintenance mode status, referring to "Maintenance Mode" of "General".
maintenance
Indicates that maintenance mode is configured.
active
Indicates that maintenance mode is released.
From the Command-line:
Use the rcxadm netdevice list command to confirm the maintenance mode status.
Check the maintenance mode status in the "MAINTENANCE" displayed in the display results of the list subcommand.
ON
Indicates that maintenance mode is configured.
OFF
Indicates that maintenance mode is released.
See
For details on the rcxadm netdevice command, refer to "3.8 rcxadm netdevice" in the "Reference Guide (Command/XML) CE".
Note
When configuring maintenance mode for a network device, auto-configuration is not executed on the network device.
Therefore, when a network device configured for maintenance mode is in a redundancy configuration, it may be unable to keep the redundancy configuration depending on the configuration details.
When configuring maintenance mode for a network device with redundancy configuration, it is recommended not to perform operations (creation, modification, and deletion) for a tenant administrator.
The configuration details for which redundancy configurations cannot be maintained depends on the specifications of network devices configuring the network devices. For details, refer to the manuals of network devices.
