Forcibly add an enclosure currently monitored by another management system

If an enclosure is already monitored by another management system, then you can forcibly add the enclosure for monitoring into HPE OneView.

IMPORTANT:

Forcibly adding an enclosure for monitoring will make it inaccessible to the other management system.

Prerequisites

Privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Server administrator

Procedure
  1. From the main menu, select Enclosures, and do one of the following:
    1. Click + Add Enclosure in the master pane.
    2. Select Actions > Add.
  2. Select Add enclosure for monitoring.
  3. Enter the data requested on the screen.
  4. Click Add to complete the action.

    A message notifies you that you cannot add the enclosure because it is being monitored by another management system.

  5. Select Force add enclosure.

    If the enclosure is not being monitored by another management system, this field does not appear.

  6. Click Add to complete the action or click Add + to add another enclosure.
  7. Verify that the enclosure has been added by confirming that the enclosure is listed in the master pane.