Users Guide

Viewing or Editing Deployment Credentials
In Dell Management Center, you can edit the deployment credentials. Deployment credentials are used to securely
communicate with a bare-metal system using the iDRAC from initial discovery, until the end of the deployment process.
Once deployment completes, the credentials are changed to those in the connection profile matched to the bare-metal
system from the deployment wizard. If the deployment credentials are changed, all newly discovered systems from that
point on will be provisioned with the new credentials - the credentials on servers discovered prior to the change of
credentials are not affected by this change. The user name should be 16 characters or less (only ASCII printable
characters). The password should be 20 characters or less (only ASCII printable characters).
To view or edit deployment credentials:
1. In Dell Management Center → Settings → Deployment Credentials , click Edit.
2. In the Credentials for Bare Metal Server Deployment, under Credentials, do the following:
– In the User Name text box, enter the user name.
The user name should be 16 characters or less (only ASCII printable characters).
– In the Password text box, enter the password.
The password should be 20 characters or less (only ASCII printable characters).
– In the Verify Password text box, enter the password again.
The passwords must match.
3. Click Apply.
Setting Up The Firmware Repository
To set up the firmware repository and credentials:
1. In the Dell Management Center, select Settings → Firmware Repository and then click Edit.
2. On the Firmware Repository page, to choose the default repository for firmware updates, select one of the
following:
– Dell Online
This uses the default firmware update repository of Dell online (ftp.dell.com) with a required staging folder.
The Dell Management Plug-in downloads selected firmware updates and stores them in the staging folder,
and then they are applied as necessary.
– Local/shared repository
These are created with the Dell Repository Manager application. These local repositories should be
located on Windows-based file shares.
3. If you selected Local/shared repository, do the following:
a) Enter the Catalog File Location using the following format:
* NFS share for xml file: host:/share/filename.xml
* NFS share for gz file: /share/filename.gz
* CIFS share for xml file: \\host\share\filename.xml
* CIFS share for gz file: \\host\share\filename.gz
b) If using a CIFS share, enter the User Name, Password, and Verify Password; the passwords must match. These
fields are only active when entering a CIFS share.
NOTE: The @ character is not supported for use in shared network folder user names/passwords.
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