Users Guide

NOTE: Host OS users without administration rights cannot initiate iDRAC GUI launcher, if the iDRAC firmware version is
4.00.00.00 or later and the communication between iDRAC and iSM is not through IPv4.
NOTE: See the iDRAC 9 User's Guide for specific privileges that are granted to a Read-only or Operator user account.
Disable Single Sign-On into iDRAC from Host OS: The user can also opt to Disable this feature completely. When iSM is
installed by disabling this feature, launching iDRAC GUI launcher launches the iDRAC login page with the default browser.
NOTE: Invoke-iDRACLauncher is independent of the iSM service and can be invoked even if iSM service is stopped.
NOTE: When browsers are not installed on the Host OS or Invoke-iDRACLauncher is not able to launch iDRAC due to
browser issue, a session is created in iDRAC already. An iDRAC admin user can log in to iDRAC and delete the sessions.
Following are the iDRAC GUI Launcher behavior with different OS-to-iDRAC Passthrustates:
● When OS-to-iDRAC Passthrough setting in iDRAC is disabled, Invoke-iDRACLauncher prompts if you want to enable
OSBMC-Passthrough in USBNIC mode.
● When OS-to-iDRAC Passthrough setting is already configured in LOM mode, the iDRAC Launcher does not launch the
iDRAC GUI.
● When OS-to-iDRAC Passthrough setting is disabled in iDRAC and Disable iDRAC Local Configuration using Settings
is also disabled or lockdown mode is enabled in iDRAC, iDRAC GUI is not launched.
NOTE: When Local Configuration using Settings or Local Configuration using RACADM is disabled in iDRAC, iDRAC
login screen is displayed.
NOTE: When an iDRAC SSO session is active on the Host OS, closing the related terminal closes the browser with SSO
session as well.
NOTE: Ensure to invoke iDRAC GUI Launcher from a GUI supported and capable interface.
NOTE: Single sign-on feature over IPv4 does not work when the user modifies the third octet in the USB-NIC IP Address.
NOTE: This feature using IPv6 requires iDRAC9 firmware 4.00.00.00 or later.
Prerequisites
Linux packages:
1. Browser such as Mozilla firefox.
2. Sudo.
3. yx4x series and later PowerEdge servers.
4. iDRAC firmware versions 3.30.30.30 and later.
NOTE: Single sign-on over IPv6 is supported on iDRAC9 firmware version 4.00.00.00 and later.
Limitations for Linux operating systems
The limitations of the iDRAC SSO Launcher for Linux operating systems are:
1. iSM does not support desktop utilities other than GNOME.
2. iSM does not support browsers other than Mozilla firefox.
NOTE: When local configuration over KCS/racadm is disabled in iDRAC, then iDRAC login screen will be displayed.
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