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
Contents
1 Overview..........................................................................................................................7
About this document.......................................................................................................................................................... 8
What’s New in this Release................................................................................................................................................ 8
Accessing Online Help........................................................................................................................................................ 8
Other documents you may need.........................................................................................................................................8
Contacting Dell Technical Support................................................................................................................................9
Licensing............................................................................................................................................................................ 9
2 Getting started with ASM 8.3.1.......................................................................................11
3 Initial Setup....................................................................................................................12
Uploading license.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Conguring time zone and NTP settings...........................................................................................................................13
Conguring proxy settings................................................................................................................................................ 13
Congure DHCP settings..................................................................................................................................................13
Verifying initial setup......................................................................................................................................................... 14
4 Dashboard..................................................................................................................... 15
Service states................................................................................................................................................................... 17
5 Services.........................................................................................................................18
Deploying service.............................................................................................................................................................. 19
Add existing service.......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Adding an existing service...........................................................................................................................................21
Viewing service details...................................................................................................................................................... 21
Viewing the compliance report................................................................................................................................... 24
Component deployment states...................................................................................................................................24
Editing service information............................................................................................................................................... 25
Deleting service................................................................................................................................................................25
Exporting service details...................................................................................................................................................26
Retrying service............................................................................................................................................................... 26
Viewing all settings........................................................................................................................................................... 26
Migrating servers (service mobility)..................................................................................................................................26
Migration pre-requisites..............................................................................................................................................26
Migrating servers..............................................................................................................................................................27
Upgrading components.....................................................................................................................................................27
Adding components to an existing service deployment.....................................................................................................27
Adding virtual machines to existing service................................................................................................................ 28
Adding servers to existing service.............................................................................................................................. 28
Adding storage to existing service.............................................................................................................................. 29
Adding Network......................................................................................................................................................... 29
Adding application to an existing service.................................................................................................................... 30
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