Purpose

A generic device is a device not running the CMDeamon service, but monitored in BCM for a basic UP/DOWN state.

This guide will explain how to remove a generic device from BCM using cmsh, For this example, we will use a generic device called powershelf01 that you no longer want to use with your cluster. 

Steps

1. First, the device will need to be closed by running the following cmsh commands on the cluster’s active head node:

# cmsh
% device
% close powershelf01

2. Next, the device may be removed:

% remove powershelf01

3. Finally, commit the change:

% commit