User guide
HP IP Console Switch directory services integration setup tutorial 209
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Servers connected to the HP IP Console Switch as target systems
Item Description
1 Keyboard, video display, and mouse
2
Windows Server™ 2003 Domain Controller (Widget-
AD)
3 Interface adapter (Widget-AD-IA)
4 Server (Brahms)
5 Interface adapter (Brahms)
6 HP IP Console Switch (Rack-10-KVM)
7 Server (Handel)
8 Interface adapter (Handel)
9 Server (Bach)
10 Interface adapter (Bach)
11 Windows Server™ 2003 HP IP Console Viewer (Vivaldi)
12 Interface adapter (Vivaldi)
Settings used for this example
• The Microsoft® domain controller acts as the DHCP server and DNS server in these examples.
• The domain is widget.com.
• The user account that is used to query the domain controller for authentication and access controls is
consoleldap.
• The OU for grouping HP IP Console Switches and users is consoleswitches.
Authentication and group-level access controls
This procedure gives an example of how to use Active Directory for authentication and group-level access
controls.
1. Name the interface adapters to match exactly the names of the computers with which they are
connected. This must be done using the OSD from the local port PS2 and video connectors. The
domain controllers interface adapters should have a different name than the domain controller. A