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Recovering management with a switch after a management server failure

You can recover management of a switch that was not unmanaged cleanly (for example, due to connectivity issues during unmanagement or failure of the managing Lenovo XClarity Administrator).

Procedure

  • Manage the switch again using the Force management option (see Managing switches).

  • To permanently remove XClarity Administrator specific configuration on a switch that was not unmanaged cleanly and will not be managed again, complete these steps.

    • Manage the switch again using the Force management option (see Managing switches), and then unmanage the switch to clean up the configuration (see Unmanaging a switch).

    • (ENOS) Log in to the switch using the switch console port or an SSH or telnet session, and run the following configuration commands in the order specified to clear the switch configuration.

      no snmp-server access 32
      no snmp-server group 16
      no snmp-server notify 16
      no snmp-server target-parameters 16
      no snmp-server target-address 16
      no snmp-server user 16