Reference Guide

Overview

ASM is intended to automate the processes involved in provisioning, conguring, and managing bare metal hardware: chassis,

servers, switches, and networked storage devices. ASM helps in automating processes related to hardware discovery, operating

system installation, virtual network creation, and rmware management.

At the highest level of the deployment stack, ASM has the ability to install certain applications on a provisioned machine as part of

the deployment process. Only a handful of native applications are available in ASM and thus the application SDK provides a

mechanism to extend the ability of ASM to deploy additional applications.

ASM utilizes Puppet to install applications. Thus for any application, one needs to create or utilize an existing Puppet module or

modules. The Application SDK is then a way to make ASM act as a Puppet external node classier and to map Puppet class and

resource parameters to the ASM UI.

NOTE: This document is intended for the technical audience. It is assumed the reader is familiar with Puppet, and

concepts within Puppet like modules and resources.