HP OneView - Manual (Page 154)

20.2 Roles
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Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Server administrator
20.3 Tasks for enclosures
The appliance online help provides information about using the UI or the REST APIs to:
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Add an enclosure to manage its contents.
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Remove an enclosure from management.
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Add a server blade to an existing enclosure.
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Remove a server blade from an existing enclosure.
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Bring an unmanaged enclosure under management.
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Claim an enclosure currently being managed by another appliance.
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Forcibly remove an enclosure if a remove action fails.
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Resolve connectivity issues between an enclosure and the appliance.
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View activities (alerts and tasks).
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Create, edit, and delete an enclosure group.
20.4 About enclosures
An enclosure is a physical structure that can contain server blades, infrastructure hardware, and
interconnects.
The enclosure provides the hardware connections between the interconnect downlinks and the
installed server blades.
You add an enclosure so that its contents can be managed, enabling you to apply configurations,
deploy server profiles, monitor operation status, collect statistics, and alert users to specific
conditions.
When you add an enclosure, you specify an enclosure group. Enclosure groups enable you to
maintain configuration consistency among enclosures. Each enclosure group is associated with a
logical interconnect group that enables creation and configuration of a logical interconnect. Each
enclosure is associated with a logical interconnect, which represents the configuration of all
interconnects in the enclosure.
Connectivity and synchronization with the appliance
The appliance monitors the connectivity status of enclosures. If the appliance loses connectivity
with an enclosure, a notification is displayed until connectivity is restored. The appliance attempts
to resolve connectivity issues and clears the alert automatically, but if it is unsuccessful, you must
resolve the issue and manually refresh the enclosure to synchronize it with the appliance.
The appliance also monitors enclosures to ensure that they are synchronized with changes to
hardware and configuration settings. However, some changes to enclosures made outside of the
appliance (from iLO or the OA (Onboard Administrator), for example) might cause the enclosure
to lose synchronization with the appliance. You might have to manually refresh devices that lose
synchronization with the appliance.
154 Managing enclosures and enclosure groups