Users Guide

24 DRAC 4 Overview
To disable the whitelist feature and avoid repetitive, unnecessary plug-in
installations, perform the following steps:
1
Open a Firefox Web browser window.
2 In the address field, type the following and press <Enter>:
about:config
3
In the Preference Name column, locate and double-click
xpinstall.whitelist.required .
The values for
Preference Name , Status , Ty p e , and Va lu e change to
bold text. The
Status value changes to user set and the Va lu e value
changes to
false .
4 In the Preferences Name column, locate xpinstall.enabled .
5 Ensure that Val ue is true . If not, double-click xpinstall.enabled to set
Value to true .
Features
The following is a list of features available on the DRAC 4.
• Dynamic registration of the DRAC 4 name in the Domain Name System
(DNS).
• Ability to log into DRAC with a short domain name. If the user domain
name does not contain a period (.), then the specified root domain will be
appended to the user domain name. For example, if the root domain is set
to
xyz.com , and you try to log in as abc\username , the DRAC 4 will take the
login name as
[e-mail] .
• Remote management and monitoring of a system through the DRAC 4
Web-based interface, serial connection, or telnet connection.
• Configuring Microsoft Active Directory to give you access to the DRAC 4,
allows you to add and control the DRAC 4 user privileges of your existing
users in your Active Directory.
• Console redirection that allows you to remotely use the managed system
keyboard, video, and mouse functions.
• Virtual Media feature that enables the managed system to remotely access
a diskette or CD located on the management station.