Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)
106
A17 Active System Manager 7.0 supports VMware ESXi server imaging and workload provisioning for
VMware VM. Microsoft Hyper-V is not supported with Active System Manager 7.0.
Q18 How to change the hostname of the Active System Manager Server?
A18 Steps to change hostname of the Active System Manager server –
a. Log in to the Active System Manager as the root user.
b. Open the /etc/sysconfig/network file and update the “HOSTNAME” field value with the
new hostname.
c. Also update the hostname in the /etc/hosts file.
d. Reboot the server by executing the reboot command.
e. Once the server is up and running, log in to the server as the delladmin user.
f. Verify that the hostname is updated to the new hostname by executing the hostname
command.
g. Ensure that all Active System Manager services are stopped first:
cd $HOME/asm-galeforce/gf/sbin
h. Execute the ./updateHostName.sh file and follow the instructions to update the
hostname in the Active System Manager installation.
i. Start the Active System Manager Services. Details on how to start the services are
provided in this guide.