Hi Gunter,  see KB : emc229439. "explicit" means a (re)discovery won't change the manage status of your interface. This is the way to enforce specific management policy.  HTH,  --Fred  == APG5 ReportPack4Event for Smarts can report on millions of notifications in seconds ==Frederic MeunierSolutions Watch4Net IncAPG & Smarts InCharge integration[URL]
We are setting interfaces and ports to managed/unmanaged using a perl script, using object->manage() or object->setManagedState().  I was playing a bit with the various ways, but couldn't find out exactly how explicitly_(un)managed differs from (un)managed. Seemingly explicit states are overwritten only by another explicit state.  Is changing states working that way? How could I go back to the "default" behaviour  (eg. uplink ports are managed, access ports are unmanaged by default)?    Regards, Gunter
managed vs. explicitly_managed