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

• To grant access only to specic Standard users to use this template, select Specic Standard Users option, and perform
the following tasks:
1. Click Add User(s) to add one more Standard user to list displayed.
To remove the Standard user from the list, select the Standard user and click Remove User(s).
2. After adding the Standard users, select or clear the check box next to the Standard users to grant or block access to
use this template.
9. Click Save.
Related links
Building template overview
Building and publishing template
Editing template information
Importing template
Exporting template
Deleting template
Cloning template
Editing template information
To edit the template information:
1. In the left pane, click Templates.
2. On the Templates page, click the template that you want to edit, and click Edit in the right pane.
The Template Builder page is displayed.
3. In the right pane, click Edit.
4. In the Template Name box, modify the template name as needed.
5. From the Template Category drop-down list, select a template category. To create a category, select Create New Category
from the list.
6. In the Template Description box, enter the description for the template.
7. If you want to update the rmware and software running on the servers when you deploy a service that uses this template,
select Manage Server Firmware check box, and from the Use Firmware Repository drop-down menu, 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.
8. If you want to grant permission to Standard users to use this template, under Manage Service Permissions, select the In
addition to all Admins, grant Standard Users access to this template check box, and perform one of the following actions:
• To grant access to all Standard users to this template, click All Standard Users.
• To grant access only to specic Standard users to use this template, click Specic Standard Users, and perform the
following tasks:
1. To add one more Standard user to the list, click Add User(s).
To remove a Standard user from the list, select the Standard user and click Remove User(s).
2. After adding or removing the Standard users, select or clear the check box next to the Standard users to grant or
block access to use this template.
9. Click Save.
Building template overview
The Template Builder page allows you to build a customized template by conguring both physical and virtual components. On the
Template Builder page, you can set the component properties. For example, you can create a template that just provisions physical
servers with OS on them, or creates storage volumes, creates clusters or VMs, or deploy applications on VMs.
This page displays the graphical representation of the topology created within a particular template.
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