Users Guide

The iDRAC members self-select a new primary controller for the group if the current primary goes offline for a prolonged duration, but
that does not have any impact on the end user. You can normally access the group manager from all iDRAC members by clicking group
manager from the iDRAC index page.
Summary View
You need to have administrator privileges to access group manager pages. If a non-administrator user logs onto the iDRAC, the group
manager section does not appear with their credentials. The group manager home page (summary view) is broadly categorized as three
sections. The first section shows rollup summary with aggregated summary details.
• Total number of servers in the local group.
• Chart showing number of servers per server model.
• Doughnut chart showing the servers per their health status (clicking on a chart section filters the server list to show only the servers
with selected health).
• Warning box if there is a duplicate group detected in the local network. Duplicate group is typically the group with the same name but
with a different passcode. This warning box does not appear if there is no duplicate group.
• Displays the iDRACs, that are controlling the group (Primary and Secondary controller).
The second section provides buttons for actions that are taken on the group as whole and the third section displays the list of all iDRACs
in the group.
It shows all the systems in the group and their current health status and allows the user to take corrective action as needed. Server
attributes specific to a server is described in the below table.
Server Attribute Description
Health Indicates the health status of that specific server.
Host Name Displays the Server name.
iDRAC IP Address Displays the exact IPV4 and IPV6 addresses.
Service Tag Displays the Service Tag information.
Model Displays the Model number of the Dell Server.
iDRAC Displays the iDRAC version.
Last Status Update Displays the time stamp when the server Status was last updated.
The System Information panel provides further details on the server like iDRAC network connectivity status, server host power state,
express service code, operating system, asset tag, node ID, IDRAC DNS name, Server BIOS version, Server CPU information, System
memory and location information. You may double click on a row or click on the launch iDRAC button to perform a single sign on redirect
to the selected iDRAC index page. On the selected server, virtual console can be accessed or server power actions can be performed
from More Actions dropped down list.
Manage iDRAC user logins, Alert configuration and group inventory export are the group actions supported.
Manage Logins
Use this section to Add New User, Change User Password and Delete User from the Group.
Group jobs including Manage Logins are one time configurations of the servers. Group manager uses SCP and jobs to make any changes.
Every iDRAC in the group owns an individual job in its job queue for each Group Manager job. Group Manager does not detect changes on
member iDRACs or lock member configurations.
NOTE:
Group jobs does not configure or override the lockdown mode for any specific iDRAC.
Leaving a group does not change local user or change settings on a member iDRAC.
Add a New User
Use this section to create and add a new user profile on all the servers in that group. A group job would be created to add the user to all
servers in that group. The status of group job can be found at GroupManager > Jobs page.
NOTE:
By default iDRAC is configured with a local administrator account. You can access further information for each
parameter with local administrator account.
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