Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 User’s Guide
- Overview
- Getting started with ASM 8.3.1
- Initial Setup
- Dashboard
- Services
- Deploying service
- Add existing service
- Viewing service details
- Editing service information
- Deleting service
- Exporting service details
- Retrying service
- Viewing all settings
- Migrating servers (service mobility)
- Migrating servers
- Upgrading components
- Adding components to an existing service deployment
- Deleting resources from service
- Templates
- Managing templates
- Viewing template details
- Creating template
- Editing template information
- Building template overview
- Building and publishing template
- Importing template
- Exporting template
- Uploading external template
- Editing template
- Viewing template details
- Deleting template
- Cloning template
- Deploying service
- Deploying multiple instances of service
- Adding Attachments
- Decommissioning services provisioned by ASM
- Component types
- Component combinations in templates
- Additional template information
- Managing templates
- Resources
- Resource health status
- Resource operational state
- Port View
- Resource firmware compliance status
- Updating firmware
- Removing resources
- Viewing firmware and software compliance report
- Discovery overview
- Configuring resources or chassis
- Removing discovered resources
- Configuring default firmware repository
- Running firmware compliance
- Configuring global chassis settings
- Configuring unique chassis settings
- Configuring unique server settings
- Configuring unique I/O module settings
- I/O module configuration
- Completing the chassis configuration
- Adding or editing Chassis Management Controller (CMC) user
- Adding or editing Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) user
- Updating resource inventory
- Viewing resource details
- Understanding server pools
- Settings
- Troubleshooting
The Catalog File option can be used only when you have access to the internet. If you use this option, select the check
box to change the base location and then select ftp.dell.com.
18. After saving the repository, click Next.
19. If an error and warning message is displayed, view the message, incorporate the recommended response action and click Finish.
20. Check the Job Queue and ensure that the export operation has completed.
Your catalog is created in the location you have selected and can be downloaded to ASM for use.
NOTE: To manually x the PowerEdge FX2 CMC version, perform the following steps:
1. Open the XML le created with any text editor.
2. Search for the PowerEdge FX2 CMC vendor version.
3. It should have a format of 3 digits such as 1.41. In cases where it has the long format truncate it to the short format.
4. Save the XML le.
Adding rmware repositories
1. On the Repositories page, click Add Firmware Repository.
2. In the Add Firmware Repository dialog, select one of the following options:
• Import ASM's recommended repository from ftp.dell.com — Select this option to import the rmware repository that
contains the rmware bundles recommended for ASM.
• Load repository from network path — Select this option to upload the repository from any one of the following le shares
NFS, CIFS, FTP, and HTTP.
• Load repository from local drive — Select this option to upload the repository from local system.
3. If you selected Load repository from network path, perform the following:
• In the File Path box, enter the location of the catalog le. Use on of the following formats:
– NFS share for xml le: host:/share/lename.xml
– NFS share for gz le: host:/share/lename.gz
– CIFS share for xml le: \\host\share\lename.xml
– CIFS share for gz le: \\host\share\lename.gzb
– FTP share for xml le:ftp://host/share/lename.xml
– FTP share for gz le:ftp://host/share/lename.gz
– HTTP share for xml le:http://host/share/lename.xml
– HTTP share for gz le:http://host/share/lename.gz
• If using a CIFS share, enter the User Name and Password.
4. If you selected Load repository from local drive, click Browse, and select the catalog le.
5. Click Save.
Types of rmware repositories
There are three types of rmware repositories:
NOTE: Only devices validated against the embedded or default repository are displayed on the Resources page.
• Embedded ASM Firmware Repository — ASM ships with an Embedded Firmware Repository that contains a subset of the
minimum rmware versions that are supported by ASM for the management interfaces of Dell hardware.
This embedded catalog is not a full catalog. If a full catalog is not downloaded, the rmware level of all devices discovered in ASM
are validated against the rmware level listed in the embedded rmware repository. Compliance to this Repository can be viewed
on the Resources page.
NOTE: Devices with rmware levels below the minimum rmware listed in the embedded ASM rmware repository
are marked as Upgrade Required.
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