Users Guide
Using the DRAC 5 With Microsoft Active Directory 99
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
already uses the Microsoft
®
Active Directory
®
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, Windows Server
®
2003, and Windows Server 2008
operating systems.
Prerequisites for Enabling Active Directory
Authentication for the DRAC 5
To use the Active Directory authentication feature of the DRAC 5, you must
have already deployed an Active Directory infrastructure. The DRAC 5 Active
Directory authentication supports authentication across multiple trees in a
single forest. See "Supported Active Directory Configuration" for information
on supported Active Directory configuration with respect to the Domain
Function level, Groups, Objects, and so on.
See the Microsoft website for information on how to set up an Active
Directory infrastructure, if you don't already have one.
DRAC 5 uses the standard Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) mechanism to
authenticate securely into the Active Directory hence, you would also require
an integrated PKI into the Active Directory infrastructure.
See the Microsoft website for more information on the PKI setup.
To correctly authenticate to all the domain controllers you will also need to
enable the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) on all domain controllers. See
"Enabling SSL on a Domain Controller" for more specific information.