Users Guide

Discovery overview

You can discover new resources or existing resources that are already configured within your environment. After discovery, you can

deploy services on these resources from a template.

When ASM discovers a chassis, it also discovers servers and I/O modules within the chassis.

The Discover Resources wizard enables you to discover resources. To open the Discover Resources wizard, perform one of the

following actions:

• On the Getting Started page, click Discover Resources.

• On the home page, click Resources. On the Resources page, click Discover in the All Resources tab.

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Discovering resources

NOTE: Only Administrator level users can discover resources.

Before you begin discovering the resources, gather the IP addresses and credentials associated with the resources, and ensure that:

• The resources are connected to the network.

• ASM virtual appliance is connected to the network.

NOTE: For some Dell resources such as chassis, servers, and I/O modules, the default credentials have been

prepopulated in ASM. If the credentials have been changed from the defaults, add a new credential to ASM with the new

To discover the resources:

1. On the Welcome page of the Discover Resources wizard, read the instructions, and click Next.

2. On the Identify Resources page, click Add Resource Type, and perform the following steps:

a. Click Resource Type.

b. From the Resource drop-down menu, select a resource that you want to discover.

c. Type the Management IP address range of the resources that you want to discover in IP Address Range* field.

NOTE: To discover a resource in an IP range, ensure that you provide the starting and ending IP addresses.

NOTE: To discover the EMC storage, type the SP A IP Address and SP B IP Address in the IP Address Range

field.

d. Select one of the following options from the Resource State drop-down menu:

• Managed — Select this option to monitor the firmware version compliance, upgrade firmware, and deploy services on

the discovered resources. This is the default option.

• Unmanaged — Select this option to monitor firmware version compliance only. The discovered resources are not

available for a firmware upgrade or deploying services by ASM.

• Reserved — Select this option to monitor firmware version compliance and upgrade firmware. The discovered

resources are not available for deploying services by ASM.

e. Select an existing or create a server pool from the Discover into Server Pool drop-down menu. This option allows you to

discover the resources into the selected server pool instead of the global pool (default).

NOTE: Selecting the server pool is optional.

f. Select an existing or create a credential from the Credentials drop-down menu to discover resource types. The default

options available are:

• Dell PowerEdge BMC Default — Select PowerEdge servers with the BMC interface.