Gear Management

Sun xVM Ops Center lets you organize your gear into groups to aid in management and inventory, and use the product category and filter functions to easily locate specific gear or types of gear.

To Create and Use Groups

Groups can be used to organize gear. In addition, provisioning and update jobs can be targeted at specific groups.

1. Click Gear.
2. Select Create Group from the Actions menu.
3. Type a name and description for the group.
4. Click OK.
5. Add gear to the group by dragging the gear onto the group.

Clicking on the group in the list on the left will display all of the group's associated gear.

To Search for Gear

The Product Types window and the Filter tool can help you locate a specific gear or type of gear.

To see all gear of a specific type, select the gear type from the Product Types window. Broad categories, such as servers, and specific categories, such as Solaris 10 operating systems, are available. A gear type will only be visible if there is at least one gear of that type.

To filter the gear, click the filter button. Select your filter criteria and enter a term, then click apply.

To Generate a Gear Report

Gear Reports provide information about registered gear, such as system ID, architecture, and registration and installation dates.

1. Click Gear.
2. Select Reports from the Actions menu.
3. Select the type of report:
   • Gear Summary Report
   • Gear Detail Report
4. Select the format for the report:
   • PDF
   • XML
   • CSV
5. Click OK.

To Remove Discovered Gear

Discovered Gear can be removed from Sun xVM Ops Center. This will prevent Sun xVM Ops Center from interacting with the gear, but will not remove Agent software.

1. Click Gear.
2. From the Gear Dropdown Menu, select Remove Discovered Gear.
3. Check the boxes of the gear you want to remove. By default, all gear is selected.
   • To deselect an individual gear, check the box corresponding to it.
   • To deselect all gear, click Deselect Remove.
   • To select all gear, click Select Remove.
4. Click Remove.

To Unregister Gear and Uninstall Agentry

Gear can be unregistered from Sun xVM Ops Center, and Agent software can be uninstalled.

1. Click Gear.
2. From the Gear Dropdown Menu, select Unregister Gear and Uninstall Agentry.
3. Check the boxes of the gear you wish to uninstall, and for which you want to uninstall Agentry. By default, no gear is selected.
   • To select an individual gear, check the box corresponding to it.
   • To select all gear for Unregistration, click Select Unregister.
   • To select all gear for Uninstalling Agentry, click Select Uninstall.
4. Type the SSH username and password if you wish to uninstall Agentry.
5. Click Unregister/Uninstall.