Users Guide

If you are configuring a new CMC or if you have used the racadm racresetcfg command, the only
current user account is default root account. The racresetcfg subcommand resets all configuration
parameters to the default values. Any earlier changes are lost.
NOTE: Users can be enabled and disabled over time, and disabling a user does not delete the user
from the database.
To verify if a user exists, open a Telnet/SSH text console to the CMC, log in, and then type the following
command once for each index of 1–16:
racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i <index>
NOTE: You can also type racadm getconfig -f <myfile.cfg> and view or edit the myfile.cfg
file, which includes all the CMC configuration parameters.
Several parameters and object IDs are displayed with their current values. Two objects of importance are:
# cfgUserAdminIndex=XX
cfgUserAdminUserName=
If the cfgUserAdminUserName object has no value, that index number, which is indicated by the
cfgUserAdminIndex object, is available for use. If a name is displayed after the "=", that index is taken
by that user name.
When you manually enable or disable a user with the racadm config subcommand, you must specify
the index with the -i option.
The "#" character in the command objects indicates that it is a read-only object. Also, if you use the
racadm config -f racadm.cfg command to specify any number of groups/objects to write, the
index cannot be specified. A new user is added to the first available index. This behavior allows more
flexibility in configuring a second CMC with the same settings as the main CMC.
Configuring Active Directory Users
If your company uses the Microsoft Active Directory software, you can configure the software to provide
access to CMC, allowing you to add and control CMC user privileges to your existing users in your
directory service. This is a licensed feature.
NOTE: On the following Operating Systems, you can recognize the users of CMC users by using
Active Directory.
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
You can configure user authentication through Active Directory to log in to the CMC. You can also
provide role-based authority, which enables an administrator to configure specific privileges for each
user.
Supported Active Directory Authentication Mechanisms
You can use Active Directory to define CMC user access using two methods:
• Standard schema solution that uses Microsoft’s default Active Directory group objects only.
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