User's Manual

Welcome To Lasso
Your Company Information
Your Company Contacts
Your Hardware Environment
Storage Arrays
Fibre Channel Switches
Ethernet Switches
Tape Libraries
Attached Hosts
Enclosures
Management and Monitoring Software
Device Collection
Upload Collection
Confirmation
NOTE: Lasso does not support Tape Libraries in this release.
Welcome to Lasso
Use Lasso to collect configuration and diagnostics data for the storage devices in the SAN and upload the report to Dell
Technical Support site.
Select one of the following options and click Continue.
Field Description
Start with a new configuration Select this option to start with a new configuration. Before
saving the configuration, if you navigate back to select
this option, then the configuration is lost.
Use an existing configuration Select this option to use the configuration file saved in the
Lasso installation directory. From the drop-down menu,
select the required configuration file.
Load a configuration file Select this option to use the configuration file saved in a
location other than the Lasso user profile directory.
Click Browse to load the configuration file.
NOTE: If the configuration file has array attached
Windows-based hosts, a background validation
process is automatically run for a few seconds using
the host credentials that is locally cached.
Upload an existing collection Select this option to upload the collected information from
the SAN to Dell Technical Support.
Select your geographic location from the following
options:
Europe, Middle East, or Asia
All Other Countries
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