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Chapter 4. The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility
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Reprovisioning your appliance server
Reprovisioning enables you to easily change the function of an appliance server. You
can also restore an image remotely to appliance servers. The create and apply
reprovisioning features are available only to appliance servers that belong to a group
with reprovisioning enabled. Using reprovisioning, you can do the following to your
appliance server:
• Create an appliance image
• Apply an appliance image
• Restore factory settings
Note: Reprovisioning does not affect the data on your appliance server; only the
operating system on the appliance server.
Enabling Reprovisioning for an existing group
If you enable a group to support reprovisioning, you can create and apply appliance
server images.
Notes:
1. When you are in the process of reprovisioning an appliance, the icon next to the
appliance changes to an under construction icon.
2. The history tab of the appliance server records the results of a reprovision action.
Check this tab to ensure that the operation completed successfully.
To enable reprovisioning for an existing group, do the following:
1. Select the group for which you want to enable reprovisioning.
2. Highlight and right-click on the group for which you want to enable reprovisioning;
then, click
Edit Group .
3. Click Next until the reprovisioning window opens, and select Enable
Reprovisioning .
4. Set the FTP settings.
Remote Host Name
This is the host name or IP address of the FTP server.
Remote Directory
This is the directory to use on the FTP server for reprovisioning images.
FTP User Name
This is the username to log in as on the FTP server.
FTP Password
This is the password to use when logging into the FTP server.
5. Click Finish to return to the main window.
Note: When you create an image for reprovisioning, it is saved as the group
name and model number. Although multiple models of appliance servers
may belong to a group, only images created from the same model can be
applied. This prevents you from applying the image to the wrong
appliance server.