Users Guide
Configuring Active Directory Users
If your company uses the Microsoft Active Directory software, you can configure 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: Using Active Directory to recognize CMC users is supported on the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows
Server 2003 operating systems. Active Directory over IPv6 and IPv4 is supported on Windows 2008.
You can configure user authentication through Active Directory to log in to the CMC. You can also provide role-based authority,
which enables an administrator to configure specific privileges for each user.
Supported Active Directory Authentication Mechanisms
You can use Active Directory to define CMC user access using two methods:
• Standard schema solution that uses Microsoft’s default Active Directory group objects only.
• Extended schema solution that has customized Active Directory objects provided by Dell. All the access control objects are
maintained in Active Directory. It provides maximum flexibility to configure user access on different CMCs with varying privilege
levels.
Related links
Standard Schema Active Directory Overview
Extended Schema Active Directory Overview
Standard Schema Active Directory Overview
As shown in the following figure, using standard schema for Active Directory integration requires configuration on both Active
Directory and CMC.
In Active Directory, a standard group object is used as a role group. A user who has CMC access is a member of the role group. To
give this user access to a specific CMC card, the role group name and its domain name need to be configured on the specific CMC
card. The role and the privilege level is defined on each CMC card and not in the Active Directory. You can configure up to five role
groups in each CMC. The following table shows the default role group privileges.
Table 22. : Default Role Group Privileges
Role Group Default Privilege Level Permissions Granted Bit Mask
1 None
• CMC Login User
• Chassis Configuration
Administrator
0x00000fff
127