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

3. In the Component Name box, enter the name of the corresponding servers.
4. In the Server Pool box, enter the name of the server pool.
5. In the Host Name box, enter the host name for the corresponding servers.
6. Click Save.
• If you want to add new server component, next to New Component Settings, click New, and perform the following steps:
1. From the Select a Component drop-down list, select a server component.
2. Under Associated Resources, perform one of the following actions:
– When you are adding a new component to a template, if you want to associate the component with all the existing
components, select Associate All resources option.
The new component automatically associated with the existing components.
– When you are adding a new component to a template, if you want to associate the component only with the
selected components, select Associate Selected Resources, and then select the components to associate as
needed.
Based on the component type, specic settings and properties is displayed automatically that are required and can be
edited. For more information specic to component type settings, see Component Types.
When you redeploy an existing service after adding one or more servers, the following states are displayed in the Resources page:
• The state of the existing server resources that are part of the service changes from “Deployed” to ‘Deploying”, and then changes
to “Deployed” after the deployment is complete.
• The state of the new server changes from “Not In Use” to “Pending”. Once the deployment starts, the state changes to
“Deploying”. If the deployment is successful, the state changes to “Deployed”. If the deployment is not successful, the state
changes to “Critical”.
Adding storage to existing service
To add storage components to an existing service:
1. On the Add Storage page, add the storage to the service by following the steps mentioned here:
• If you want to add new storage component, perform the following steps:
1. From the Select a Component drop-down list, select one of the following storage components:
– Compellent
– EqualLogic
– VNX
2. Under Associated Resources, to associate the newly added storage component to the existing components in the
service, select the components to associate.
3. Click Continue.
Based on the component type, specic settings and properties appear automatically that are required and can be
edited. For more information-specic component type settings, see Component Types.
2. Click Save.
Adding Network
You can update workload network using Add Network feature.
1. On the home page, click Services.
2. Select a service for which you want to add a network, in the right pane, click View Details.
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