Users Guide

• 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.

• iDRAC IO Identity feature support for enhanced WWN/MAC Address Inventory.

• Graphical display of chassis component status and health.

• Support for single and multi-slot servers.

• LCD iDRAC conguration wizard support for iDRAC network conguration.

• 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.

• iDRAC reset without rebooting the operating system.

• Support for storage array conguration using RACADM — Allows you to congure IP, join or create group, and select fabric for storage

arrays using RACADM.

• Multi-chassis management:

– capability to view up to eight group member chassis from the lead chassis.

– capability to select chassis conguration properties from lead chassis and push to Group members.

– capability for Group members to keep their chassis settings synchronized with the lead chassis.

• Support to save server settings and conguration information to hard disk and restore to same or dierent server.

Security Features

CMC provides the following security features:

• Password-level security management — Prevents unauthorized access to a remote system.

• Centralized user authentication through:

– Active Directory using Standard Schema or an Extended Schema (optional.)

– Hardware-stored user IDs and passwords.

• Role-based authority — Enables an administrator to congure specic privileges for each user.

• User ID and password conguration through the Web interface.

NOTE

: 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.

• Congurable IP ports, if applicable.

• Login failure limits per IP address, with login blocking from the IP address when the limit is exceeded.

• Congurable session auto time out, and more than one simultaneous sessions.

• Limited IP address range for clients connecting to CMC.

• Secure Shell (SSH), which uses an encrypted layer for higher security.

• Single Sign-on, Two-Factor Authentication, and Public Key Authentication.

Chassis Overview

The following gure shows the facing edge of a CMC (inset) and the locations of the CMC slots in the chassis:

Overview