Active System Manager 8.
Release Type and Definition Active System Manager Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. The release notes contains important information available at the time of release of Active System Manager™(ASM), release 8.1, including information about ASM release lineup and dependencies, ASM documentation lineup, known issues, and the methods to contact your service provider.
What’s New The following are the highlights of Active System Manager version 8.1: • Template based flexible RAID configuration • Granular BIOS settings enabled in service template • File upload for MXL configuration • Support for multiple license files • Usability updates for configuration wizard • NTP configuration on all installed operating systems • Firmware compliance improvements • Service error reporting • FX2 Support For iSCSI, FCoE, and FC • RHEL 7.0 support • Cent OS 7.
o • ASM-3493: Network scale up should only allow Public/Private networks. o • • • • • Hyper-V deployments uses one logical network and all hosts are assigned the same logical network. In case of two deployments, if the first deployment uses the parent host group and the second deployment uses a user defined host group, then the second deployment with the user defined host group fails. ASM-3150: Log event shows EqualLogic deployment fails.
o • • • ASM-3133: ASM performs the discovery operation on the FX2 chassis after you update the CMC firmware. o The Chassis firmware update will trigger the Chassis inventory which will trigger the Chassis discovery in order to detect any newly inserted blades or IOMs. o This is an expected behavior.
• ASM-3497: Filtering error message for insufficient user privileges needs to be enhanced. o When a user with insufficient privileges to a server pool tries to kick off a deployment, the filtering code does not allow the deployment to be kicked off and the following error message is displayed: {=0 servers could be chosen for deployment} • ASM-3463: Compellent deployment fails if you type apostrophes (') or other special characters in some fields.
For complete installation instructions, see the "Active System Manager 8.1 Installation Guide" available at dell.com/support/manuals. Installation and Configuration Notes None Documentation Errata None Copyright © 2015 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. Dell™ and the Dell logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.
