Users Guide

Profiles and Templates

About Credential Profile

The appliance uses a credential profile to connect to the managed systems’ iDRAC.

In data centers, different collection of servers can have different iDRAC credentials associated with the

collection. To manage such a scenario, create a credential profile that specifies the credential for a

collection of servers.

Creating Credential Profiles

To create a credential profile:

1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, do any of the following:

• In the dashboard, click Create Credential Profile.

• In the navigation pane, click Profiles and Templates → Credential Profile, and then click Create.

2. In Credential Profile, provide a unique profile name and description, and iDRAC credentials

information, if required make this profile as default and then click Finish.

NOTE: When a credential profile is created, an associated Run As Account is created in SC2012

VMM to manage the server and the name of the Run As Account is

Dell_CredentialProfileName.

Modifying Credential Profiles

NOTE: You cannot modify a credential profile that is used for hypervisor deployment.

To modify a credential profile:

Select the credential profile you want to modify, click Edit and update the profile as required.

Deleting Credential Profiles

NOTE: You cannot delete a credential profile that is used to discover a server. Delete the discovered

server before you delete the credential profile.

NOTE: When a credential profile is deleted, the associated Run As Account from SC2012 VMM is

also deleted.

To delete a credential profile:

Select the profile that you want to delete and click Delete.