Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 User’s Guide

Understanding All Resources tab

The All Resources tab displays the following information, in tabular format, about the resources discovered and managed in ASM.

Health state of the resource (Healthy, Critical, Warning, and Unknown).
State in which the resource exists Available, Deployed, Pending, Error, and so on.
- NOTE: The state column displays the last discovery state of the resources. To manually run the inventory operation on a resource and update ASM with the latest resource details, click a resource, and then click Run Inventory in the Details pane.
IP address of the resource. Click the IP address of a Dell resource to open the Element Manager.
Resource ID that uniquely identifies a resource in the form of service tag, host name, or FQDN based on the resource types.
Manufacturer name. For example, Dell, Cisco, VMware, and so on.
Resource model. For example, M620, M1000e, FX2 server, and so on.
Resource type. For example, chassis, blade server, EqualLogic Storage Group, VMware vCenter, and so on.
Firmware status. (Compliant, Non–Compliant, Update Required)

To sort the resource list based on the entries in a column, click the arrow next the column header.

To filter resources based on the resource type, click Show Filter on the Resource page and then select one of the following resource types from Resource Type drop-down list:

All
Dell Chassis
Element Manager
Servers
Switches
Storage
VM Manager

To filter resources based on the resource status, select one of the following from the Health drop-down list:

All Resources
Healthy
Warning
Critical
Unknown

You can also filter the resources based on the Service, Resource State — Managed, Unmanaged, or Reserved, and Server Pool.

On the Resources page, you can also:

Click Discover to discover new resources.
Click Remove to remove the resource from ASM.
Select one or more resources, and click Managed, Unmanaged, or Reserved to set the resource state.
Select one or more resources and click Update Firmware to update the firmware of the resources.
Select one or more chassis from the list, and click Configure Chassis to configure the basic settings on the chassis.
On the right pane, you can perform the following actions:
- Click View Details to view the detailed information about the resource.
- Click Run Inventory to update the resource inventory.
- Under Details, next to Firmware Status, click View Compliance Report to view the firmware compliance report.