https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/orphans-already/m-p/3633138#M15029 There is no other way but to delete them and re-discover. A device goes to ORPHAN state if HPSIM could not find IP, hostname and GUID of a device. But the reason why they still have a device named ORPHAN is bcoz to balance the count of the devices managed by HPSIM. Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:07:31 GMT Aravindh Rajaram 2005-09-23T07:07:31Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/orphans-already/m-p/3633137#M15028 Just like in SIM 4 I'm getting a lot of orphans, in SIM 4 I just deleted them and upon the next discovery the missing servers would be properly added, or if I should wish I could always add them manually but why bother since autodiscovery did it.<BR /><BR />Now the SIM 5.0 installation has not been running for a very long time and already I'm seeing some 40 orphans, i.e. servers showing up with the name "ORPHAN_123456" (random number), is there another way to solve these than deleting and rediscovering them ? Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:05:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/orphans-already/m-p/3633137#M15028 Mikael Rönnbäck 2005-09-23T02:05:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/orphans-already/m-p/3633138#M15029 There is no other way but to delete them and re-discover. A device goes to ORPHAN state if HPSIM could not find IP, hostname and GUID of a device. But the reason why they still have a device named ORPHAN is bcoz to balance the count of the devices managed by HPSIM. Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:07:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/orphans-already/m-p/3633138#M15029 Aravindh Rajaram 2005-09-23T07:07:31Z