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• User names and passwords of accounts that can access the resources.

• Optionally, SMTP server and email address for an account to receive alerts.

• Optionally, NTP server IP addresses

• (Optional) Chassis Management Controller (CMC) and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

(iDRAC) VLAN IDs.

1. On the Welcome screen, read the instructions, and click Next.

2. The Discovered Resources page lists the resources discovered in ASM. If you do not want one or

more resources to be in ASM environment, select the resources, and click

Remove Resource from

ASM. Click Next.

NOTE: The Discovered Resources, Default Firmware Repository, and Firmware Compliance

pages are displayed only when you start this wizard from the Getting Started page.

3. On the Default Firmware Repository page, create and import your own custom repositories from

DRM to use as the default firmware level for your discovered resources. Click

Next.

The Firmware Compliance page lists the resources that do not meet the firmware requirements

specified by the default repository.

4. On the Firmware Compliance page, select the resources to update the firmware running on the

resources automatically to meet the firmware requirements specified in the default repository. Click

Next.

5. In the Chassis Configuration page, select one or more chassis to configure the following global

settings, and then click Next. For more information, see Configure Global Chassis Configuration

Settings.

a. Under Users, configure additional CMC and iDRAC local users.

b. Under Monitoring, change the default monitoring settings.

c. Under NTP, select the time zone and NTP servers.

d. Under Power Config, configure power budget and redundancy attributes.

e. Under Networking, add networking settings for the chassis.

6. On the Unique Chassis Settings page, configure specific chassis settings on chassis individually, and

then click Next. For more information, see Configuring Unique Chassis Settings.

7. On the Unique Server Settings page, enter the iDRAC DNS name for the servers within the chassis,

and then click Next. For more information, see Configuring Unique Server Settings.

8. On the Unique IO Module Settings page, enter a host name for each I/O module on chassis, and

then click Next. For more information, see Configuring Unique I/O Module Settings.

9. On the Uplink Port Configuration page, configure uplinks ports on the MXL switches with in the

chassis, and then click Next. For more information, see Configuring Uplink Ports

10. On the Summary page, verify the chassis configuration settings and click Finish to configure the

chassis.