Users Guide

Contents 5
Using Multiple Browser Tabs and Windows . . . . 48
Configuring the iDRAC6 NIC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring the Network and
IPMI LAN Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring IP Filtering and IP Blocking . . . . . . 54
Configuring Platform Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)
. . . . . . 57
Configuring Platform Event Traps (PET) . . . . . . 58
Configuring E-Mail Alerts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuring IPMI Using Web Interface
. . . . . . . 60
Configuring iDRAC6 Users
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Securing iDRAC6 Communications
Using SSL and Digital Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . 62
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
. . . . . . . . . 63
Accessing SSL Through the
Web-Based Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Generating a Certificate Signing Request . . . . . 65
Uploading a Server Certificate
. . . . . . . . . . . 66
Configuring and Managing Active Directory
. . . . . . 67
Configuring and Managing Generic LDAP
. . . . . . . 71
Configuring iDRAC6 Services
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Updating the iDRAC6 Firmware/System Services
Recovery Image
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
iDRAC6 Firmware Rollback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Remote Syslog
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
First Boot Device
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Remote File Share
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80