Users Guide

Using the DRAC 4 With Microsoft Active Directory 103
Using the DRAC 4 With Microsoft
Active Directory
A directory service is used to maintain a common database of all information
needed for controlling users, computers, printers, etc. on a network.
If your company uses the Microsoft
®
Active Directory
®
service software, it
can be configured to give you access to the DRAC 4, allowing you to add and
control DRAC 4 user privileges to your existing users in your Active Directory
software.
NOTE: Using Active Directory to recognize DRAC 4 users is supported on the
Microsoft Windows
®
2000 and Windows Server
®
2003 operating systems.
You can use Active Directory to define user access on DRAC 4 through two
methods: you can use the extended schema solution, which uses Dell-defined
Active Directory objects, or a standard schema solution, which uses Active
Directory group objects only.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Extended
Schema and Standard Schema
When using Active Directory to configure access to the DRAC 4, you must
choose either the extended schema or the standard schema solution.
The advantages of using the extended schema solution are:
• All of the access control objects are maintained in Active Directory.
• Maximum flexibility in configuring user access on different DRAC 4 cards
with different privilege levels.
The advantages of using the standard schema solution are:
• No schema extension is required because standard schema uses Microsoft
Active Directory objects only.
• Configuration on the Active Directory side is simple.