OpenManage Enterprise 4.0.x User's Guide

Transfer of ownership of device manager entities

This topic describes how an administrator can transfer entities such as jobs, firmware/configuration templates and baselines, alert policies, and profiles that are created by one device manager to another device manager. Administrators can initiate a 'transfer of ownership' when a device manager leaves the organization.

Prerequisites

Ensure you are logged into OpenManage Enterprise as an Administrator, as described in User roles.
Reassign the device groups owned by the former device manager to the device manager who will be taking over.

About this task

Transfer of ownership transfers only the entities and not the device groups (scope) owned by a device manager to another.
The appliance only transfers ownership to other active directory or local device manager accounts.

Steps

Initiate the Transfer Ownership wizard by clicking Application Settings > Users > Transfer Ownership.
From the Source User drop-down list, select the device manager account from where the ownership of entities must be transferred.

NOTE:The Source User drop-down list will only list local, active directory, OIDC, or deleted device managers that have entities such as jobs, firmware or configuration templates, alerts policies and profiles associated with them.
From the Target User drop-down list, select the device manager account to which the entities will be transferred.
Click Finish and then click Yes at the prompt message.

Results

All the owned entities such as jobs, firmware/configuration templates, alert policies, and profiles are transferred from the source device manager to the target device manager.

Next steps

The new device manager must reschedule any tasks that were scheduled by the former device manager, such as the tasks for firmware updates or template deployments.

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