User's Manual
Overview 21
• Launch point for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
Web interface
• Support for WS-Management
•
FlexAddress feature
—
Replaces the factory-assigned World Wide
Name/Media Access Control (WWN/MAC) IDs with chassis-assigned
WWN/MAC IDs for a particular slot, an optional upgrade. For more
information, see
"Using FlexAddress" on page 215.
• Graphical display of chassis component status and health
• Support for single and multi-slot servers
• Update multiple iDRAC management consoles firmware at once
• LCD iDRAC configuration wizard supports iDRAC network configuration
• iDRAC single sign-on
• Network time protocol (NTP) support
• Enhanced server summary, power reporting, and power control pages
• Forced CMC failover, and virtual
reseat
of servers
Security Features
The CMC provides the following security features:
• User authentication through Active Directory (optional),
or hardware-stored user IDs and passwords
• Role-based authority, which enables an administrator to configure specific
privileges for each user
• User ID and password configuration through the Web interface
• Web interface supports 128-bit SSL 3.0 encryption and 40-bit SSL 3.0
encryption (for countries where 128-bit is not acceptable)
NOTE: Telnet does not support SSL encryption.
• Configurable IP ports (if applicable)
• Login failure limits per IP address, with login blocking from the IP address
when the limit is exceeded
• Configurable session auto time out, and more than one simultaneous
sessions