Users Guide

126 Adding and Configuring iDRAC6 Users

Before You Begin

You can configure up to 16 users in the iDRAC6 property database. Before

you manually enable an iDRAC6 user, verify if any current users exist. If you

are configuring a new iDRAC6 or if you ran the racadm racresetcfg command,

the only current user is root with the password calvin. The racresetcfg

subcommand resets the iDRAC6 to the original default values.

CAUTION: Use caution when using the racresetcfg command, as all configuration

parameters are reset to their default values. Any previous changes are lost.

NOTE: Users can be enabled and disabled over time. As a result, a user may have a

different index number on each iDRAC6.

To verify if a user exists, type the following command at the command prompt:

racadm getconfig -u <

username

type the following command once for each index of 1–16:

racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i <

index

NOTE: You can also type racadm getconfig -f <myfile.cfg> and view

or edit the myfile.cfg file, which includes all iDRAC6 configuration parameters.

Several parameters and object IDs are displayed with their current values.

Two objects of interest are:

# cfgUserAdminIndex=XX

cfgUserAdminUserName=

If the cfgUserAdminUserName object has no value, that index number,

which is indicated by the cfgUserAdminIndex object, is available for use. If a

name appears after the "=", that index is taken by that user name.

NOTE: When you manually enable or disable a user with the racadm config

subcommand, you must specify the index with the -i option. Observe that the

cfgUserAdminIndex object displayed in the previous example contains a '#'

character. Also, if you use the racadm config -f racadm.cfg command to specify any

number of groups/objects to write, the index cannot be specified. A new user is

added to the first

available index. This behavior allows more flexibility in configuring

multiple iDRAC6 cards with the same settings.