topic Re: Unable to delete device in Controllers https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492950#M2247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It did actually cross my mind that this could have been some sort of hierarchy/dependency issue (e.g. hosts attached to device) but the error message was a bit vague, saying resource does not exist or not found .. Thanks Adam for your quick response! Much appreciated.</P><P><BR />D</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:53:42 GMT danailpetrov 2017-06-20T11:53:42Z Unable to delete device https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492948#M2245 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi guys,</P><P></P><P>I am a newbie in this APIC-EM world - literally installed it a few hours ago and now trying to get my head around it. </P><P><BR />For test purposes I have only deployed 1 VM (quite demanding resource wise..) and the plan was to get just a few network devices. However, I let the CDP depth to 16 and ended up with roughly 500 devices as now all my access points are in. </P><P></P><P>I tried several different methods, but nothing really worked. What do I miss?.. See bellow:</P><P></P><P></P><P><IMG alt="0.PNG" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.cisco.com/legacyfs/online/fusion/108488_0.PNG" style="height: 111px; width: 620px;" /></P><P><IMG alt="1.PNG" class="jive-image image-2" src="https://community.cisco.com/legacyfs/online/fusion/108489_1.PNG" style="height: 500px; width: 620px;" /></P><P><IMG alt="2.PNG" class="jive-image image-3" src="https://community.cisco.com/legacyfs/online/fusion/108490_2.PNG" style="height: 753px; width: 620px;" /></P><P><IMG alt="3.PNG" class="jive-image image-4" src="https://community.cisco.com/legacyfs/online/fusion/108491_3.PNG" style="height: 666px; width: 620px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:38:49 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492948#M2245 danailpetrov 2019-03-01T12:38:49Z Re: Unable to delete device https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492949#M2246 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hi,</P><P>AP are managed through the WLC, not individually.</P><P></P><P>You need to delete the WLC they are connected to.</P><P></P><P>Adam</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:13:51 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492949#M2246 aradford 2017-06-20T11:13:51Z Re: Unable to delete device https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492950#M2247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It did actually cross my mind that this could have been some sort of hierarchy/dependency issue (e.g. hosts attached to device) but the error message was a bit vague, saying resource does not exist or not found .. Thanks Adam for your quick response! Much appreciated.</P><P><BR />D</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:53:42 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/controllers/unable-to-delete-device/m-p/3492950#M2247 danailpetrov 2017-06-20T11:53:42Z