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• A pre-provisioned Grid member is an offline member. When you upgrade a Grid that has a pre-provisioned member, the upgrade behaves the same way as it does when you upgrade the Grid that has an offline member. Note that you cannot pre-provision a member or update its settings during a scheduled upgrade. For more information about upgrades, see Upgrading NIOS.

• You cannot change the pre-provisioned member configuration after you save it. To change the configuration, you must first delete the member and pre-provision it again. If you want to delete certain provisional licenses or change the hardware model for the pre-provisioned member, you must also first delete the existing member and define a new one. For information about deleting a member, see Removing a Grid Member.

• When you assign a network, zone, or IPv4 DHCP failover association to a pre-provisioned member, the Restart Service button is not displayed. If you restart any service on a pre-provisioned member, no action is actually taken even though you may receive a message indicating that the operation may take a few minutes. When you join the member to the Grid, NIOS will run respective member services on the joined member. For more information about service restarts, see Restarting Services.

• NIOS allows you to backup information about the pre-provisioned member. When you perform a forced restore however, NIOS does not restore the pre-provisioned licenses if you have already installed permanent NIOS licenses on the corresponding member. For more information about backup and restore, see Backing Up and Restoring Configuration FilesBacking up and Restoring Configuration Files.

• You can use Manage Member Services to manage the pre-provisioned member services. For more information, see Monitoring Member Services.

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1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab -> Members tab, and then click the Add icon.

2. In the Add Grid Member wizard, add a new member as described in Adding a Single Member.

3. After you add the member to the Grid, select the member in the Members tab and click the Edit icon.

4. In the Grid Member Properties editor, select the Pre-Provisioning tab, and complete the following:

   • Member Type: Displays the member type that you have selected in the General tab. The pre-provisioning feature is supported only for Infoblox and Virtual NIOS member types. Note that you must select a hardware model for the member in order to enable the pre-provisioning feature.

   • Hardware Model: Select the hardware model from the drop-down list. Grid Manager displays only the supported hardware models for the specified member type. Once you select the hardware model, the pre-provisioning feature is enabled for the member. NIOS allows you to pre-provision HA members that have the same or different hardware models for Node 1 and Node 2. A few hardware specific features, such as DSCP, VLAN, LAN2, and LOM (Light Out Management), are enabled based on the pre-provisioned hardware model you specify here.

   • Provisional Licenses: Select the licenses that you want to enable for the pre-provisioned member. You can select the licenses only after you have specified the hardware model for the member. Once you select and enable a license, you can no longer modify the hardware model for the member. Note that the permanent licenses that you later add to the member must include the ones that are specified for pre-provisioning.

5. Save the configuration.

   Note that after you save the configuration, you can no longer modify the hardware model for the member. You also cannot disable any provisional licenses, though you can add new ones. To disable provisional licenses, you must first remove the pre-provisioned member and then configure a new one.

About Provisional Licenses

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Guidelines for Joining Pre-Provisioned Members to the Grid

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