Users Guide

The Firmware View Filter section displays the server inventory for the selected chassis and the rmware versions of all the
server components.
Viewing Selected Server Component Firmware Versions Using Web Interface
To view the rmware versions of selected server components using CMC Web interface:
1. In the system tree, select Group. Click PropertiesFirmware Version.
The Chassis Group Firmware Version page displays all the chassis in the group.
2. In the Select a Chassis section, select the member chassis for which you want to view the inventory.
3. In the Firmware View Filter section, select Components.
4. In the Components list, select the required component- BIOS, iDRAC, CPLD, USC, Diagnostics, OS Drive, RAID devices (up to
2), and NIC devices (up to 6), for which you want to view the rmware version.
The rmware versions of the selected component for all the servers in the selected member chassis are displayed.
NOTE: The rmware 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 rmware does not support Lifecycle
Controller.
The CMC rmware 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 Certicates
The following table lists the types of certicates based on the login type.
Table 16. Types of Login and
Certicate
Login Type Certicate Type How to Obtain
Single Sign-on using
Active Directory
Trusted CA certicate Generate a CSR and get it signed from a Certicate Authority.
Smart Card login as
Active Directory user
User certicate
Trusted CA certicate
User Certicate — Export the smart card user certicate as Base64-
encoded le using the card management software provided by the
smart card vendor.
Trusted CA certicate — This certicate is issued by a CA.
Active Directory user
login
Trusted CA certicate This certicate is issued by a CA.
Local User login SSL Certicate Generate a CSR and get it signed from a trusted CA.
NOTE: CMC ships with a default self-signed SSL server certicate.
The CMC Web server and Virtual Console use this certicate.
Related link
Secure Sockets Layer Server Certicates
Secure Sockets Layer Server Certicates
CMC includes a Web server that is congured to use the industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (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.
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