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

• Critical — Indicates that, with in a service, service deployment is not successful for the particular components.
• Cancel — Indicates that, within a failed service, deployment is not yet started for the particular components and canceled due to
other component (s) deployment failure.
Editing service information
To edit the information of a service:
1. On the home page, click Services.
2. On the Services page, click the service, and in the right pane of the services detail page, click View Details.
3. On the Service Details page, in the right pane beside click Edit.
4. In the Edit Service Information dialog box, perform the following steps:
a. Modify the Service Name and Service Description that identies the service.
b. If you want to update the rmware and software running on the servers that are part of the service, select the Manage
Server Firmware check box, and from the Use Firmware Repository drop-down list, select a rmware repository.
NOTE: Changing the rmware repository may update the rmware level on servers for this service. Firmware
on shared devices will still be maintained by the global default rmware repository.
c. If you want to grant permission for Standard users to use this service, under Manage Service Permissions, select the In
addition to all Admins, grant Standard Users access to this service check box, and perform one of the following actions:
• To grant access to all Standard users for this service, select All Standard Users option.
• To grant access only to specic Standard users for this service, select Specic Standard Users option, and perform
the following tasks:
a. Click Add User(s) to add one or more Standard users to the list.
To remove the Standard user from the list, select the Standard user and click Remove User(s).
b. After adding the Standard users, select or clear the check box next to the Standard users to grant or block
access to the service.
c. Click Save.
Deleting service
To delete a service, perform the following steps:
NOTE: Standard users are allowed only to delete the service that they have deployed.
NOTE: Deleting a service deletes the VLANs congured on the switches.
1. On the home page, click Services.
2. On the Services page, click the service, and in the right pane of the services detail page, click View Details.
3. On the Service Details page, in the right pane, under Service Actions, click Delete.
4. In the Delete Service dialog box, perform the following steps:
NOTE: Deleting a shared resource could aect other running services.
a. The Return Servers to resource Pool check box is selected by default. This process returns the IP/IQNs assigned to the
servers that were a part of the service and returns the servers to the server pool. After the service is deleted, the Dell
servers that were part of the deleted service are rebooted, and the servers are set to PXE boot ready for the next
deployment. The servers that are selected by default for tear down are turned o after the service is torn down.
b. The Delete VMs check box is selected by default to delete the VMs created on the cluster. The servers and VMs are
selected by default for tear down.
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