Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerActive System Manager Release 8.0

Contents

1 Overview................................................................................................................. 7

About this document............................................................................................................................ 8

What is New in this Release.................................................................................................................. 8

Accessing Online Help.......................................................................................................................... 8

Other documents you may need......................................................................................................... 9

Licensing................................................................................................................................................9

2 Getting started with ASM 8.0........................................................................... 10

3 Initial setup...........................................................................................................12

Uploading license................................................................................................................................ 13

Configuring time zone and NTP settings........................................................................................... 13

Configure proxy settings.....................................................................................................................13

Configure DHCP settings....................................................................................................................14

Verifying initial setup........................................................................................................................... 14

4 Dashboard............................................................................................................15

Service states........................................................................................................................................17

5 Services.................................................................................................................18

Deploy service..................................................................................................................................... 19

Viewing service details........................................................................................................................20

Component deployment states....................................................................................................23

Editing service information.................................................................................................................23

Deleting service...................................................................................................................................24

Exporting service details..................................................................................................................... 24

Retry failed service.............................................................................................................................. 24

View Service Deployment Settings.....................................................................................................25

Migrating servers (service mobility).................................................................................................... 25

Migration prerequisites..................................................................................................................25

Migrating servers................................................................................................................................. 25

Adding components to existing service deployments...................................................................... 26

Adding applications to existing service.........................................................................................27

Adding clusters to existing service................................................................................................27

Adding Virtual Machines to existing service.................................................................................28

Adding servers to existing service.................................................................................................28

Adding storage to existing service................................................................................................29

Deleting resources from service........................................................................................................ 30