Users Guide

Profiles and templates

About credential profile

Each credential profile contains a username and password for a single user account. Credential profiles

simplify the use and management of user credentials. A credential profile authenticates a user’s role

based capabilities. The appliance uses credential profiles to connect to the managed systems’ iDRAC.

Also, you can use credential profiles to access the FTP site, resources available in Windows Shares, and

when working with different features of iDRAC.

You can create four types of credential profiles:

• Device Credential Profile — This profile is used to login to iDRAC or Chassis Management Controller

(CMC).

NOTE:

– When no default profile is created or selected, the default iDRAC factory setting is used. The

default username as root and password as calvin is used.

* The default iDRAC profile is used to access the server when you discover a server or

perform synchronization.

– The default CMC profile has username as root and password as calvin, and is used to

access the modular server to get information about the chassis.

– Use the device type credential profile to discover a server, login to CMC, resolve

synchronization issues, and deploy operating system.

– After you upgrade to DLCI for SC2012 VMM version 1.1, then all the existing credential

profiles are classified to device type credential profiles. Also, a credential profile created and

made as default profile in the earlier version of DLCI for SC2012 VMM is classified as device

type credential profile and the profile is set as the default credential profile to login to iDRAC.

• Windows Credential Profile — This profile is used for accessing Windows Shares while creating a DRM

update source.

• FTP Credential Profile — This profile is used for accessing FTP site.

• Proxy Server Credentials — This profile is used for providing proxy credentials for accessing any FTP

sites for updates.

Predefined credential profiles

SYSTEM DEFAULT FTP account is a predefined credential profile of type FTP credentials having

Username as anonymous and the Password is blank. This is not editable. This profile is used to access

ftp.dell.com .