Users Guide

Using the DRAC 5 With Microsoft Active Directory 101
Using the DRAC 5 With Microsoft Active
Directory
A directory service maintains a common database of all information needed for controlling users,
computers, printers, etc. on a network. If your company uses the Microsoft
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Active Directory
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service software, you can configure the software to provide access to the DRAC 5, allowing you to
add and control DRAC 5 user privileges to your existing users in your Active Directory software.
NOTE: Using Active Directory to recognize DRAC 5 users is supported on the Microsoft Windows 2000 and
Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
Active Directory Schema Extensions
The Active Directory data is a distributed database of Attributes and Classes. The Active Directory
schema includes the rules that determine the type of data that can be added or included in the
database. The user class is one example of a Class that is stored in the database. Some example user
class attributes can include the user’s first name, last name, phone number, and so on. Companies
can extend the Active Directory database by adding their own unique Attributes and Classes to solve
environment-specific needs. Dell has extended the schema to include the necessary changes to
support remote management Authentication and Authorization.
Each Attribute or Class that is added to an existing Active Directory Schema must be defined with a
unique ID. To maintain unique IDs across the industry, Microsoft maintains a database of Active
Directory Object Identifiers (OIDs) so that when companies add extensions to the schema, they can
be guaranteed to be unique and not to conflict with each other. To extend the schema in Microsoft's
Active Directory, Dell received unique OIDs, unique name extensions, and uniquely linked attribute
IDs for our attributes and classes that are added into the directory service.
Dell extension is: dell
Dell base OID is: 1.2.840.113556.1.8000.1280
RAC LinkID range is:12070 to 12079
The Active Directory OID database maintained by Microsoft can be viewed at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/certification/ADAcctInfo.asp by entering our extension Dell.