Users Guide

The Discover Resources wizard enables you to discover resources. To open the Discover Resources

wizard, perform one of the following actions:

• On the Getting Started page, click Discover Resources.

• In the left pane, click Resources. On the Resources page, click Discover in the All Resources tab.

Related Tasks

Discovering resources

NOTE: Only Administrator level users can discover resources.

Before you begin discovering the resources, gather the IP addresses and credentials associated with the

resources, and ensure that:

• The resources are connected to the network.

• ASM virtual appliance is connected to the network.

NOTE: For some Dell resources such as chassis, servers, and I/O modules, the default credentials

have been prepopulated in ASM. If the credentials have been changed from the defaults, add a new

credential to ASM with the new login information.

To discover the resources:

1. On the Welcome page of the Discover Resources wizard, read the instructions, and click Next.

2. On the Identify Resources page, click Add Resource Type, and perform the following steps:

a. Select the Resource Type.

b. Type the IP address range of the resources that you want to discover in IP Address Range* field.

NOTE: To discover a resource in an IP range, ensure that you provide the starting and

ending IP addresses.

c. Select one of the following options from the Resource State drop-down menu:

• Managed — Select this option to monitor the firmware version compliance, upgrade

firmware, and deploy services on the discovered resources. This is the default option.

• Unmanaged — Select this option to monitor firmware version compliance only. The

discovered resources are not available for a firmware upgrade or deploying services by ASM.

• Reserved — Select this option to monitor firmware version compliance and upgrade

firmware. The discovered resources are not available for deploying services by ASM.

d. Select an existing or create a server pool from the Discover into Server Pool drop-down menu.

This option allows you to discover the resources into the selected server pool instead of the

global pool (default).

NOTE: Selecting the server pool is optional.

e. Select an existing or create a credential from the Credentials drop-down menu to discover

resource types. The default options available are:

• Dell PowerEdge BMC Default — Select PowerEdge servers with the BMC interface.

• Dell PowerEdge iDRAC Default — Select PowerEdge servers with the iDRAC interface.

3. Click Next.

You may have to wait while ASM locates and displays all the resources that are connected to the

managed networks.