User's Manual

About This Guide ix
About This Guide
This guide describes the Dell
™
Active System Manager product, which provides an integrated set of tools
and services to automate environment infrastructure and streamline the new equipment verification and
qualification process.
This guide provides information needed to maintain and support the hardware and software environment
of the Active System Manager product, and describes the architecture and operations of the Active System
Manager product. Specifically, it also describes the following information:
• Overview of the Active System Manager client software, including concepts and features specific to
using the software.
• Instructions for installing the Active System Manager client software.
• User guidance on the features and functionality of the following aspects of the software:
— Active System Manager server accounts.
— Active System Manager client user interface, including managing template files and reserving
sessions
— Authoring and modifying templates
— Connecting local and remote users to running sessions and allowing users to monitor and manage
these sessions
• Guidance for system administrators to manage Active System Manager inventory management; for
example, integrating new resource types into the software, adding managed and control resources and
links to the environment, and viewing, modifying, and deleting existing entries.
• System administration for maintaining the Active System Manager software and hardware
environment.
This preface contains the following topics:
• Intended Audience
• Organization
• Conventions
• Documentation Lineup