User's Manual

1-4 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
Managing inventory The Active System Manager administrator is responsible for building and managing the environment’s
resource inventory, which includes the various general resource types within your environment, as well as
specific instances that require a particular configuration for a particular piece of network equipment.
The administrator uses the Active System Manager application to define and catalog the specific types of
equipment interfaces, and each general type of network hardware in the environment.
For more information about how to manage the inventory, see Chapter 5, “Inventory Management.”
Managing Active System
Manager templates and
sessions
The administrator can use the Active System Manager application and all of the functions to create, update,
save, validate, schedule, and delete templates. In addition, the administrator can cancel or edit present or
future sessions of other users, or delete past sessions.
The administrator can set up system-wide Archive Bin rules.
For more information about Archive Bin rules or how to manage templates and sessions, see Chapter 10,
“Network Management.”
Managing Active System
Manager server profile
templates and server
profiles
The administrator can create, update, save and delete server profile templates and server profiles. The
administrator can also manage the identity pools used to generate server profiles.
Creating administrator or
custom reports
The Active System Manager software includes a set of pre-defined, web-based support that has the ability to
create administrator-specific reports, and provides the ability for administrators to create and generate
custom, BIRT-based reports.
For more information, see Chapter 12, “Session Management.”
Managing security
privileges
The Active System Manager administrator has many built-in permissions, separate from the user role.
For more information about the built-in permissions, see Table 4-1 on page 4-19.
Table 1-2 Active System Manager Administrator Tasks (continued)
Task Description