User's Manual

Managing Repositories
9-6 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
Creating a New Repository
To create a new repository (or multiple file repositories), perform the following steps:
1. In the Setup perspective, perform one of the following options to display the New Repository dialog
box:
• On the File Servers view, right-click an element and select Repositories.
• On the Active System Manager menu bar, click File > New > Other > Active System Manager >
Repositories.
• On the Active System Manager toolbar, click the New icon, select Other > Active System
Manager > Repositories.
The wizard displays a New dialog box for you to create a new repository.
2. Click Next to create a new repository.
3. Select the required repository type and protocol.
4. Click Next to display and enter information about the new repository.
5. Click Next to list and discover the files on the repository.
6. Click Discover to start the browsing and initiate the discovery process and to view the associated file
elements. This could take a few minutes.
7. Identify element levels to be marked as Base or Patch elements:
• To mark them as a base file, select one or more rows, right-click, and select Set As Base.
• To not mark them as a patch file, in the Base column, click the check boxes to deselect your
identified elements.
Note Steps 7, 8, and 9 are required in order to use the provisioning feature in the Active System Manager
application.
8. Element types must be identified as an image file or an element or a configuration file. To do so, select
one or more elements, right-click and select Set Type > Element | Image File | Configuration File.
9. Set the association: select a row and click Associate. To set the association to multiple images or
configuration files, click Bulk Associate.
Note This operation is required to facilitate provisioning of resources under test for specific vendors.
10. Select all files to import into the repository view using the check boxes in the Name column.
11. Click Finish.