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

Editing a user............................................................................................................................................................105
Enabling or disabling users........................................................................................................................................105
Directory services..................................................................................................................................................... 105
Importing Active Directory Users.............................................................................................................................. 108
About roles............................................................................................................................................................... 109
Virtual appliance management.........................................................................................................................................115
Update the ASM virtual appliance............................................................................................................................. 115
Generating and uploading the SSL certicates.......................................................................................................... 116
Editing DHCP settings............................................................................................................................................... 117
Editing proxy settings................................................................................................................................................ 117
License management.................................................................................................................................................118
Editing default time zone and NTP settings...............................................................................................................118
Updating repository path........................................................................................................................................... 119
Adding Dell ASM Service Tag.....................................................................................................................................119
IP Verication Port Number.......................................................................................................................................119
Virtual identity pools........................................................................................................................................................ 119
Creating virtual identity pools....................................................................................................................................120
Deleting virtual identity pools.....................................................................................................................................121
Exporting virtual identity pools..................................................................................................................................122
9 Troubleshooting........................................................................................................... 123
LC operation times out while deploying server prole to a server ...................................................................................123
Hyper-V host deployments using network storage only support certain congurations...................................................123
iSCSI storage network only support static IP addressing.................................................................................................123
Unable to deploy a service for Compellent component with same server object and volume names...............................123
Unable to deploy a service using the template with two EqualLogic CHAP components................................................ 123
Unable to log in to ASM using active directory using ""...................................................................................................123
Chain booting issue occurs while booting microkernel in a multi-hop DHCP environment............................................... 124
The health status for Compellent storage devices displays as Unknown on the Resources page.................................... 124
Scaling down a server that is part of a cluster with HA and DRS disabled does not remove the server from vCenter.
The associated virtual machines may also appear in a Disconnected state...................................................................... 124
Firmware update on a server fails with a POST error......................................................................................................125
Stale Active Directory account entries for HyperV host and cluster can fail HyperV deployments.................................. 125
SCVMM reports DNS error during mounting of the available storage on SCVMM cluster. This is due to intermittent
network failure during the mounting operation................................................................................................................125
SCVMM reports DNS error during mounting of the available storage on SCVMM cluster. Trying to reuse an existing
volume used in another Hyper-V cluster..........................................................................................................................125
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