The Chassis, servers, switches, storage groups, VMware
vCenters, and Microsoft virtualization environments that you can manage
using ASM are called resources.
The
Resources page displays
detailed information about all the resources and the server pools
that ASM has discovered and inventoried, and allows you to perform
various operations from the
All Resources and
Server Pools tabs.
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NOTE: It may take few
minutes to display the discovered resources every time you run the
inventory, depending upon the number of resources.
The
All Resources tab displays
the following information, in tabular format, about the resources
discovered and managed in ASM.
- Health state of the resource such as server, storage,
and switches (Healthy, Critical, Warning, and Unknown). For more information
on the resource state, see
Resource health
status
- State in which the resource exists Available, Deployed,
Pending, Error, and so on.
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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:
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All
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Dell Chassis
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Element Manager
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Servers
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Switches
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Storage
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VM Manager
To filter resources based on the resource status,
select one of the following from the
Health drop-down list:
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All
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Healthy
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Warning
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Critical
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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. For more information on discovering the new resources,
see
Discovering
resources
.
- Click
Remove to remove the
resource from ASM. For more information on removing the resources,
see
Removing resources.
- Click
Export All to export
all the resource details to .csv file.
- 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.