Users Guide

NOTE: The firmware versions of USC, Diagnostics, OS Drive, RAID devices, and NIC devices of

servers are not available if:

• The server belongs to the 10th generation of PowerEdge servers. These servers do not

support Lifecycle Controller.

• The server belongs to the 11th generation of PowerEdge servers, but the iDRAC firmware

does not support Lifecycle Controller.

• The CMC firmware version of a member chassis is earlier to version 4.45. In this case, the

components of all the servers in this chassis are not displayed, even if the servers support

Lifecycle Controller.

Obtaining Certificates

The following table lists the types of certificates based on the login type.

Table 14. : Types of Login and Certificate

Single Sign-on using Active

Directory

Trusted CA certificate Generate a CSR and get it signed

from a Certificate Authority

Smart Card login as Active

Directory user

• User certificate

• Trusted CA certificate

• User Certificate — Export the

smart card user certificate as

Base64-encoded file using

the card management

software provided by the

smart card vendor.

• Trusted CA certificate — This

certificate is issued by a CA.

Active Directory user login Trusted CA certificate This certificate is issued by a CA.

Local User login SSL Certificate Generate a CSR and get it signed

from a trusted CA

NOTE: CMC ships with a

default self-signed SSL

server certificate. The CMC

Web server and Virtual

Console use this certificate.

Related Concepts

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Server Certificates

CMC includes a Web server that is configured to use the industry-standard SSL security protocol to

transfer encrypted data over the Internet. Built upon public-key and private-key encryption technology,

SSL is a widely accepted technique for providing authenticated and encrypted communication between

clients and servers to prevent eavesdropping across a network.

SSL allows an SSL-enabled system to perform the following tasks:

• Authenticate itself to an SSL-enabled client.

• Allow the client to authenticate itself to the server.