Users Guide

8 Contents
5 Recovering and Troubleshooting the
Managed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System . . . . . . 127
Managing Power on a Remote System
. . . . . . . . . 128
Selecting Power Control Actions
. . . . . . . . . 128
Viewing System Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Main System Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Remote Access Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Using the System Event Log (SEL)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Viewing the Last System Crash Screen . . . . . . . . . 132
Using the RAC Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Using the Diagnostic Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Troubleshooting Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . 135
Troubleshooting Alerting Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . 136
6 Using the DRAC 5 With
Microsoft Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . 137
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Extended Schema and Standard Schema
. . . . . . . . 137
Extended Schema Active Directory Overview . . . . . 138
Active Directory Schema Extensions
. . . . . . . 138
Overview of the RAC Schema Extensions . . . . . 139
Active Directory Object Overview
. . . . . . . . . 139
Configuring Extended Schema
Active Directory to Access Your DRAC 5 . . . . . 143
Extending the Active Directory Schema
. . . . . . 143