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
Deleting credentials
To delete a credential:
1. On the home page, click Settings, and then click Credentials Management.
2. On the Credential Management page, select the credential that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
3. Click OK when the conrmation message is displayed.
Getting Started
This page provides a recommended guided workow for getting started with ASM. A check mark indicates that you have completed
the step.
Application logs
ASM provides an activity log of user- and system-generated actions to use for troubleshooting activities. By default, log entries
display in the order they occurred.
You can view the following information:
• Severity
– — Indicates that the fatal error occurred while communicating with a managed resource; corrective action is
immediately required.
– — Indicates that the resource is in a state that requires corrective action, but does not impact overall system health. For
example, a discovered resource is not supported.
– — Indicates general information about system health or activity.
– — Indicates that the component is working as expected.
• Category
– Security — Indicates the authentication failures, operations on ASM users, operations on credentials
– Appliance Conguration — Indicates the initial setup, appliance settings, backup and restore
– Template Conguration — Indicates the operations on Service Templates
– Network Conguration — Indicates the operations on networks, pools for MAC/IQN/WWPN/WWNN
– Infrastructure or Hardware Conguration — Indicates the hardware discovery, inventory
– Infrastructure or Hardware Monitoring — Indicates the hardware health
– Deployment — Indicates the Service template deployment operations
– Licensing — Indicates the license updates and expirations
– Miscellaneous — Indicates all other issues
• Description — Displays brief summary of activity
• Date and Time — Indicates the time when activity occurred and time is displayed using the client machine time zone. If there are
logs, the time captured when the message is logged is based on the appliance time.
• User — Indicates user name from which activity originated
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