User's Manual

Organization
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• Chapter 6, “Using Inventory”
Describes the Active System Manager Inventory perspective and all of the functions available for using
your inventory.
• Chapter 7, “Repository Management”
Describes the Active System Manager Inventory perspective and all of the functions available for you
to manage repositories and Resource Adapters.
• Chapter 8, “Template Management”
Describes the Templates perspective and all of the functions available for you to create, open, update,
save, and close templates. It also describes how to import and export templates directly from the Active
System Manager Topology view into the Templates perspective. Lastly, it describes how to work with
configuration files to use in a template for equipment provisioning.
• Chapter 9, “Session Management”
Describes the Active System Manager Sessions perspective and all of the functions available for you to
view, modify, and save the template of an running session, and remotely run test cases associated with
it. You can also start and stop resource console sessions, execute remote commands, or power on and
power off managed resources.
• Chapter 10, “Orchestration Management”
Describes how to work with Orchestrations in the Active System Manager and helps you learn how to
create, update, and delete orchestrations. The advanced feature allows you to view the graphical view
of orchestration while execution, error handling in orchestration, and linking orchestrations with a
selected template.
• Chapter 11, “Working with Test and Script Execution”
Describes how to work with test cases and resource script execution and Active System Manager views.
• Chapter 12, “Reports”
Describes the Active System Manager report generation feature and all of the functions available for
you to create and print user reports for your inventory.
• Chapter 13, “Settings”
Describes the Active System Manager Settings feature and all of the functions available for you to
manage your inventory settings.
• Chapter 14, “Dashboard”
Describes the Active System Manager Dashboard feature and all of the functions available.