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 blue component icon indicates that the service is successfully deployed on the components.
– The light blue component icon indicates that the service deployment is in progress.
– The yellow icon indicates that particular component requires rmware update.
To view the following information about the resources, click the corresponding component icons:
– IP Address—Click the IP address of a Dell resource to open the Element Manager.
– Hypervisor IP Address (for servers only)
– Deployment state
– OS IP address
• In the Tabular view, under Service Resources, the following information is displayed based on the resource types in the service:
– Under Virtual Machines, you can view the following information about the virtual machines congured on the Clusters:
* Component Name
* Hostname
* OS IP Address
* CPUs
* Disk Size
* Memory
– Under Clusters, you can view the following information about the Clusters created on VMware vCenter or the Microsoft
virtualization environments:
* Data Center Name
* Cluster Name
* Management IP Address
* Asset/Service Tag
– Under Physical Servers, you can view the following information about the servers that are part of a service:
* Hostname
* Management IP Address
* OS IP Address
* Asset/Service Tag
– Under Storage, you can view the following information and view the volumes created on a particular Storage and the size of
the volumes:
* Management IP Address
* Asset/Service Tag
* Associated VMware Storage DRS Cluster
• Service Firmware/Software Repository : Displays the current rmware or repository in use. To change the repository, click
Change Repository and from the Use Firmware/Software Repository drop-down menu, select the desired repository and click
Save.
NOTE: Selecting the Use ASM appliance default catalog sets the repository to the default catalog version.
NOTE: If you update the ASM Appliance default catalog under Settings → Repositories, all services or templates set
to the Use ASM appliance default catalog are automatically set to the updated version.
• Under Service Information, you can view the following information:
– Name of the service
– Overall Service Health—Displays health of the service. The overall service health is determined by the following:
* Resource Health — Displays the health monitoring of resources reported by Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core.
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