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Provisioning Basics
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Figure 27
Appliances view
By default, automatic status refresh is disabled. You can refresh the status manually by selecting the 
target appliances and clicking the Refresh Status button 
. If you prefer, you can have ETEMS 
automatically poll the status of the appliances. If the appliance status is anything other than 
, take 
action as described in 
.
To configure automatic status checking:
1 On  the  Edit menu, click Preferences.
2 In the Preferences window, expand the ETEMS listing and select Status.
3 Click Enable automatic status refresh to have ETEMS automatically refresh the status of the 
appliances. Clear the check box to disable the feature.
4 If you enabled automatic status checking, enter the interval in minutes in the Refresh Interval box. 
The default refresh interval is 60 minutes and can be changed in one minute increments from 1 to 
10,080 minutes (7 days).
5 Click Apply, and then click OK. .
Table 28
 Appliance status indicators
Status 
Indicator
Description
Unequal configurations. The ETEMS configuration differs from the configuration stored 
on an appliance. Compare configurations to view discrepancies (see 
OK. The ETEMS and appliance configurations are the same, and the appliance is 
reachable.
Appliance reboot required (see 
).
Reload policies required for policies to take effect (see 
Status unknown. The appliance is not responding to ETEMS’s attempts to communicate 
), or ETEMS hasn’t yet queried the appliance status.
Appliance unmanageable due to an incompatible hardware/software combination (see 
). 
The appliance is in an error state. See the Installation Guide for your appliance model 
for information about error recovery.