Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManageriDRAC6 for Monolithic Servers Version 1.3

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Configuring the iDRAC6 NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring the Network and

IPMI LAN Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring IP Filtering and

IP Blocking

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Configuring Platform Events

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)

. . . . . . 66

Configuring Platform Event Traps (PET)

. . . . . . 67

Configuring E-Mail Alerts

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Configuring IPMI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Configuring iDRAC6 Users

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Securing iDRAC6 Communications Using

SSL and Digital Certificates

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

. . . . . . . . . 72

Accessing SSL Through the

Web-Based Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Generating a Certificate Signing Request

. . . . . 73

Uploading a Server Certificate

. . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring and Managing Active Directory

. . . . . . 77

Configuring and Managing Generic LDAP

. . . . . . . 80

Configuring iDRAC6 Services

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Updating the iDRAC6 Firmware/System

Services Recovery Image

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

iDRAC6 Firmware Rollback

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Remote Syslog

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

First Boot Device

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88