Users Guide

Privilege Description
• Provides services to the chassis, such as date and time, rmware update, and CMC reset.
• Is associated with the chassis, such as slot name and slot priority. Although these properties apply to
the servers, they are strictly chassis properties relating to the slots rather than the servers themselves.
For this reason, slot names and slot priorities can be added or changed whether or not servers are
present in the slots.
• Is associated with Active Directory (AD) such as managing AD certicate, and conguring AD groups,
domains, and privileges.
When a server is moved to a dierent chassis, it inherits the slot name and priority assigned to the slot it
occupies in the new chassis. The previous slot name and priority remain with the previous chassis.
NOTE: CMC users with the Chassis Conguration Administrator privilege can congure power
settings. However, the Chassis Control Administrator privilege is required to perform chassis
power operations, including power on, power o, and power cycle.
User Conguration
Administrator
User can:
• Add a new user.
• Change the password of a user.
• Change the privileges of a user.
• Enable or disable the login privilege of a user but retain the name and other privileges of the user in the
database.
Clear Logs Administrator User can clear the hardware log and CMC log.
Chassis Control
Administrator (Power
Commands)
CMC users with the Chassis Power Administrator privilege can perform all power-related operations. They
can control chassis power operations, including power on, power o, and power cycle.
NOTE: To congure power settings, the Chassis Conguration Administrator privilege is
needed.
Server Administrator This is a blanket privilege, granting a CMC user all rights to perform any operation on any servers present in
the chassis.
When a user with Server Administrator privilege issues an action to be performed on a server, the CMC
rmware sends the command to the targeted server without checking the privileges of a user on the
server. In other words, the Server Administrator privilege overrides any lack of administrator privileges on
the server.
Without the Server Administrator privilege, a user created on the chassis can only execute a command on
a server when all of the following conditions are true:
• The same user name exists on the server.
• The same user name must have the same password on the server.
• The user must have the privilege to execute the command.
When a CMC user who does not have Server Administrator privilege issues an action to be performed on a
server, CMC sends a command to the targeted server with the user’s login name and password. If the user
does not exist on the server, or if the password does not match, the user is denied the ability to perform
the action.
If the user exists on the target server and the password matches, the server responds with the privileges of
which the user was granted on the server. Based on the privileges responding from the server, CMC
rmware decides if the user has the right to perform the action.
Listed below are the privileges and the actions on the server to which the Server Administrator is entitled.
These rights are applied only when the chassis user does not have the Server Administrative privilege on
the chassis.
Server Conguration Administrator:
• Set IP address
110 Conguring user accounts and privileges