Rules that govern manage and unmanage operations

The Manage and Unmanage commands are recursive. When you unmanage an object, all the management agent services and other objects that are functionally dependent on that object become unmanaged. For example, if you unmanage a switch, all of the ports and cards that belong to the switch are unmanaged.

The following list of rules determines whether an object can be managed or unmanaged and explains the recursive nature of the Manage and Unmanage commands:

• When you unmanage a system, a management agent service that is hosted by or is a part of that system also becomes unmanaged. For example, a system, such as a router, hosts an SNMP agent service. If you unmanage a router that hosts an SNMP agent service, the SNMP agent service is also unmanaged.

• When you unmanage a system, any logical device that is a part of that system also becomes unmanaged. Logical devices include objects such as fans, temperature and voltage sensors, processors, and file systems. Ports and interfaces also become unmanaged. If you unmanage a system, such as a router, the interfaces and sensors that are part of that router are not managed, nor can they be managed while the parent object is unmanaged. Likewise, if you manage a system, all of its components are managed except those that are explicitly unmanaged.

• When you add a logical device or service to an unmanaged system, that logical device or service automatically becomes unmanaged. For example, if an interface is added to an unmanaged host, the new interface is also unmanaged.

• When you unmanage a service, the protocol endpoint that is associated with that service becomes unmanaged.

• When you unmanage a logical device or a protocol endpoint, any other protocol endpoint that is layered over that logical device or protocol endpoint becomes unmanaged. For example, if you unmanage an interface, the subinterfaces or IP addresses that are layered over that interface are also unmanaged.

• When you unmanage a card, the managed state of any sub-cards, network adapters that are realized by the card, or systems that are packaged by the card remain managed. As such, monitoring and analysis of these items continue.