Users Guide
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Resources
The Chassis, servers, switches, storage groups, VMware vCenters, and Microsoft virtualization
environments that you can manage using ASM are called resources.
The Resources page displays detailed information about all the resources and the server pools that ASM
has discovered and inventoried, and allows you to perform various operations from the All Resources and
Server Pools tabs.
NOTE: It may take few minutes to display the discovered resources every time you run the
inventory, depending upon the number of resources.
The All Resources tab displays the following information, in tabular format, about the resources
discovered and managed in ASM.
• Health state of the resource such as server, storage, and switches (Healthy, Critical, Warning, and
Unknown). For more information on the resource state, see Resource health status
• State in which the resource exists Available, Deployed, Pending, Error, and so on.
NOTE: The state column displays the last discovery state of the resources. To manually run the
inventory operation on a resource and update ASM with the latest resource details, click a
resource, and then click Run Inventory in the Details pane.
• IP address of the resource. Click the IP address of a Dell resource to open the Element Manager.
• Resource ID that uniquely identifies a resource in the form of service tag, host name, or FQDN based
on the resource types.
• Manufacturer name. For example, Dell, Cisco, VMware, and so on.
• Resource model. For example, M620, M1000e, FX2 server, and so on.
• Resource type. For example, chassis, blade server, EqualLogic Storage Group, VMware vCenter, and
so on.
• Firmware status. (Compliant, Non–Compliant, Update Required)
To sort the resource list based on the entries in a column, click the arrow next the column header.
To filter resources based on the resource type, click Show Filter on the Resource page and then select
one of the following resource types from Resource Type drop-down list:
• All
• Dell Chassis
• Element Manager
• Servers
• Switches
• Storage
• VM Manager
To filter resources based on the resource status, select one of the following from the Health drop-down
list:
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