Accepting a management request using the Central Management System CLI

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Use the commands in this section to accept or reject a request by an appliance to be added to the Central Management System appliance for management.

Note

If the Central Management System appliance has never accepted a request for management, ensure that it meets the requirements described in Preparing to Accept a Management Request.

Ta accept a request to be managed:
  1. Log in to the Central Management System CLI.

  2. Go to CLI configuration mode:

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  3. View the list of requests:

    cm-hostname (config) show cmc rendezvous
  4. Accept one or more requests.

    • To accept a specific appliance:

      cm-hostname (config) # cmc rendezvous server accept client <hostname>

      where <hostname> is the hostname of the requesting appliance.

    • To accept all appliances in the list:

      cm-hostname (config) # cmc rendezvous server accept all
  5. Save your changes.

    hostname (config) # write memory
To reject a request to be managed:
  1. Go to CLI configuration mode:

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. View the list of requests:

    cm-hostname (config) # show cmc rendezvous
  3. Reject one or more requests:

    • To reject a specific appliance:

      cm-hostname (config) # no cmc rendezvous server accept client <hostname>

      where <hostname> is the hostname of the requesting appliance.

    • To reject all appliances in the list:

      cm-hostname (config) # no cmc rendezvous server accept all
  4. Save your changes.

    hostname (config) # write memory

Example

In this example, the request from the nx-02 appliance is accepted and the request from the nx-04 appliance is rejected.

hostname (config) # show cmc rendezvous
CMC rendezvous service name: cmc

CMC server:
   Server rendezvous enabled: yes
   Auto-accept enabled:       no

Clients waiting approval:
nx-02 (172.14.10.00)
nx-04 (172.14.20.00)
...

hostname (config) # cmc rendezvous server accept client nx-02
hostname (config) # no cmc rendezvous server accept client nx-04
hostname (config) # write memory