Accepting a management request in a NAT deployment using the Central Management System CLI

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.

To accept a request to be managed:

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.
Log in to the Central Management System CLI.

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

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. Do not specify the IP address, because multiple appliances behind the same NAT gateway have the same IP address.
- To accept all appliances in the list:
```
cm-hostname (config) # cmc rendezvous server accept all
```
Save your changes.
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```

To reject a request from an appliance to be managed:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

View the list of requests:
```
cm-hostname (config) # show cmc rendezvous
```
1. 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. Do not specify the IP address, because multiple appliances behind the same NAT gateway have the same IP address.
  - To reject all appliances in the list:
    cm-hostname (config) # no cmc rendezvous server accept all
2. 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.

cm-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 (3.3.3.6)
nx-04 (3.3.3.6)
...

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