Users Guide

NOTE: The default privilege value is 0, which indicates the user has no privileges enabled. For a list of valid bit-mask
values for specic user privileges, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at
dell.com/idracmanuals.
Conguring Active Directory users
If your company uses the Microsoft Active Directory software, you can congure the software to provide access to iDRAC, allowing you to
add and control iDRAC user privileges to your existing users in your directory service. This is a licensed feature.
NOTE: Using Active Directory to recognize iDRAC users is supported on the Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003,
and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
You can congure user authentication through Active Directory to log in to the iDRAC. You can also provide role-based authority, which
enables an administrator to congure specic privileges for each user.
The iDRAC role and privilege names have changed from earlier generation of servers. The role names are:
Table 20. iDRAC roles
Current Generation Prior Generation Privileges
Administrator Administrator Login, Congure, Congure Users, Logs, System Control, Access Virtual
Console, Access Virtual Media, System Operations, Debug
Operator Power User Login, Congure, System Control, Access Virtual Console, Access Virtual
Media, System Operations, Debug
Read Only Guest User Login
None None None
Table 21. iDRAC user privileges
Current Generation Prior Generation Description
Login Login to iDRAC Enables the user to log in to iDRAC.
Congure Congure iDRAC Enables the user to congure iDRAC.
Congure Users Congure Users Enables the user to allow specic users to access the system.
Logs Clear Logs Enables the user to clear the System Event Log (SEL).
System Control Execute Server Control
Commands
Allows power cycling the host system.
Access Virtual Console Access Virtual Console
Redirection (for blade servers)
Access Virtual Console (for
rack and tower servers)
Enables the user to run Virtual Console.
Access Virtual Media Access Virtual Media Enables the user to run and use Virtual Media.
System Operations Test Alerts Allows user initiated and generated events, and information is sent as an
asynchronous notication and logged.
Conguring user accounts and privileges 137