About managing and unmanaging topology objects
The
IP Manager
monitors managed
objects but not unmanaged objects. The IP Manager
uses ICMP
and SNMP, unless a different access mode is specified, to monitor
a managed object for the purpose of determining the object’s status
and connectivity. An unmanaged object is not polled or rediscovered
by the IP Manager
, but remains present in the modeled topology.A managed object
is an object whose IsManaged attribute has a value of TRUE. IsManaged
is a Boolean attribute: TRUE when an object is managed, and FALSE
when an object is unmanaged.
The
Manage
and Unmanage
commands enable you to control
whether an object is managed. Unmanaging a system might be useful
when, for example, a switch or a card is taken offline for maintenance.