>>> The solution suggested by the Atlas team was simply >>> to register the new instance with the ID number I >>> had been using before. This worked. >>> >>> IIUC, each hardware probe is pre-registered. This >>> may be an obstacle; I don’t know. >> >> i suspect the probe or actually the back end would have an identity >> crisis. > > Indeed! For hardware probes, where the probe's key is virtually > unchangeable, we don't do such ID/key juggling. For software probes > the host can update (re-register) the probe's key meaning the ID > remains the same; this is intended to solve the problem Niall faced.
so what is the convention for marking the removed v1 as deceased? randy
