Troubleshooting

Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller
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Introduction
This document explains the process involved with Microsoft Active Directory successfully interacting
with the Dell Chassis Management Controller.
The Dell Chassis Management Controller is used to manage the Enterprise Chassis environment.
Problem statement
In most deployments, Active Directory requires customization or updates because there are many
pieces to configure, and these items may confuse users. The process is not intuitive, and there is no
simple way to correctly configure these devices. This white paper offers information to help identify
and eliminate configuration errors and installation problems, while explaining how to simplify the
management of the Dell Chassis Management Controller in your current Microsoft Active Directory
environment.
The pieces of the whole solution are scattered throughout different Dell and Microsoft documents. This
makes the information difficult to find and put together to solve the problem of integrating Dell
devices in to the Active Directory environment.
Praxis solution
This document combines all the pieces necessary to understand how the interaction of Microsoft Active
Directory works with the Dell Chassis Management Controller.
Benefit 1
Helps you understand the products so you save time and enjoy an immediate return
on your investment.
Benefit 2
Breaks down the complex setup and administration needed to support your
environment. In addition, it supplies you with the theory behind how the setup
works.
Benefit 3
Helps you plan the setup to use in your Windows® Active Directory environment.
Implementation
The following sections are broken down and organized into simple categories that let you go directly to
the section you need, based on the information necessary to complete the setup task. Although it is
recommended to read through each section, you can quickly find answers to the implementation
questions for your environment. The following sections are organized by the theory and operation of
Microsoft and Dell setup for the environments.
The theory of Active Directory
Microsoft Active Directory is an environment to manage users, computers, and devices. This is a central
location to manage the permissions or security, and network administration of the objects stored in
Active Directory. Microsoft Active Directory or Directory Services (DS) is a mapping system that lets you
store these objects in a tree and assign permissions to them. You can then address or access these
objects by name using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) with Internet Protocol (IP).
This lets you set permissions for users or computers, and communicate to these computers or validate