Users Guide

To add and congure local CMC users:
1 In the left pane, click Chassis Overview, and then click User Authentication.
2 On the Local Users page, in the User ID column, click a user ID number. The User Conguration page is displayed.
NOTE: User ID 1 is the root user account that is shipped by default with a CMC. This cannot be changed.
3 Enable the user ID and specify the user name, password, and access privileges for the user. For more information about the options,
see the Online Help.
4 Click Apply. The user is created with appropriate privileges.
Congure local users using RACADM
NOTE: You must be logged in as a root user to execute RACADM commands on a remote Linux system.
You can congure up to 16 users in the CMC property database. Before you manually enable a CMC user, verify if any current users exist.
If you are conguring 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 conguration 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 myle.cfg le, which includes all the
CMC conguration 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 specied. A new user is added to the rst available index.
This behavior allows more exibility in conguring a second CMC with the same settings as the main CMC.
Conguring Active Directory users
If your company uses the Microsoft Active Directory software, you can congure 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 congure user authentication through Active Directory to log in to the CMC. You can also provide role-based authority, which
enables an administrator to congure specic privileges for each user.
Conguring
user accounts and privileges 113