Users Guide

120 Using the DRAC 4 With Microsoft Active Directory
7 Ty pe t h e DRAC 4 Domain Name (for example, drac4.com ). Do not use
the NetBIOS name.
The
DRAC 4 Domain Name is the fully qualified domain name of the
sub-domain where the RAC Device Object is located.
8 Click Apply to save the Active Directory settings.
9 Click Upload Active Directory CA Certificate to upload your domain
forest Root CA certificate into the DRAC 4.
The domain controllers' SSL certificates should have been signed by the
root CA. Have the root CA certificate available on your management
station accessing the DRAC 4 (see "Exporting the Domain Controller
Root CA Certificate").
10 Click the Configuration tab and select Network .
11 If DRAC 4 NIC DHCP is enabled, select Use DHCP to obtain DNS
server address
. If you want to input a DNS server IP address manually,
deselect
Use DHCP to obtain DNS server address and type your primary
and alternate DNS Server IP addresses.
12 Click Apply .
The DRAC 4 Extended Schema Active Directory feature configuration is
complete.
Starting with DRAC 4 firmware version 1.60, you can log into DRAC with a
short domain name (DRAC 4 domain name) only. This is because DRAC 4
now appends the root domain name to the user domain name.
For example, if
you set the root domain to
xyz.com , and the DRAC 4 domain name to abc , you
can log into DRAC as
abc\username . The DRAC 4 takes the login name as
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