User guide

Product overview 11
Directory services integration (LDAP)
Directory services integration, or LDAP, offers the following features and benefits:
• Authenticates and authorizes users from a shared database
• Controls user privileges (A user can be disabled globally with one change.)
• Enables users to use their domain credentials
• Does not require manual password synchronization when the user password is changed in the
directory (It is changed everywhere.)
• Manages access controls from a single administration point
Supported operating systems
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Workstation Service Pack 4
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Service Pack 4
• Microsoft® Windows® XP (Home and Professional) Service Pack 2
• Microsoft Windows™ Server 2003 Service Pack 1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 WS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 WS
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
• SUSE Linux 9.2
• SUSE Linux 9.3
IMPORTANT: To ensure that you have the latest software, see the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/go/kvm
).
Browser requirements
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (Microsoft® Windows® operating systems only)
• Mozilla 1.4 or higher
• Netscape 6.0 or later
• Firefox 1.0 or later
Supported directory services
Microsoft® Active Directory on:
• Windows® Server 2000
• Windows Server™ 2003
System requirements
The following is a list of the hardware and browser requirements for running the HP IP Console Viewer on
the supported operating systems. Configurations with less than the recommended requirements are not
supported.
• 500-MHz Intel® Pentium® III processor