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Preparing to accept a management request using the CLI

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Follow these steps to prepare the Central Management System appliance to accept or reject a request by an appliance to be added for management.

To prepare to accept a request to be managed:
  1. Log in to the Central Management System CLI.

  2. Verify that the rendezvous process is enabled:

    cm-hostname > enable
    cm-hostname # show cmc rendezvous
  3. If Server rendezvous enabled: no is shown, enable the rendezvous process and save your changes:

    cm-hostname # configure terminal
    cm-hostname (config) # cmc rendezvous server enable
    cm-hostname (config) # write memory