A Central Management System administrator can view a list of appliances that requested to be added for management, and accept or reject them. After a request is accepted, the appliance is added to the Central Management System appliance.
Requirements for establishing a successful connection
To accept a management request and successfully establish and maintain the connection, the following must be in place:
The rendezvous process is enabled on the Central Management System appliance (enabled by default). To verify and enable the process, see Preparing the to Accept a Management Request .
The appliance has a permanent hostname. If the hostname is changed, the connection will be broken and cannot be reset. If this happens, the appliance must be removed from the Central Management System appliance and then added again using the new hostname.
The Central Management System appliance and the requesting appliance have the same rendezvous service name. The rendezvous process has an identifier (known as service name) that is set to "cmc" by default. The Central Management System appliance and the requesting appliance must have the same service name; if you change the service name on one, you must change it on the other as well. The cmc rendezvous service-namehostname command changes the service name; the no cmc rendezvous service-name command restores the default value. For details, see the CLI Command Reference.
Important
The auto-connect feature must be enabled on the requesting appliance. To prevent future connection issues, do not enable the auto-connect feature from the Central Management System appliance on behalf of a managed appliance that was added using a client-initiated connection. The value of the Auto-connect field in the output of the show cmc client command on the managed appliance is yes. The value of the Auto-connect field in the output of the show cmc appliance <appliance ID> command on the Central Management System appliance is no.
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