Deployment Guide

Security recommendations
While the Security Configuration Guide must be reviewed in its entirety, this segment serves to check most important security
recommendations of Dell EMC to ensure the security of your data and environment.
● Given the elevated permissions that are granted to the service account, its password must be changed to better protect
metro node from misuse or abuse of those privileges. Service account password and iDRAC root password are changed
automatically during initial system configuration.
● Given the elevated permissions that are granted to the iDRAC root account, its password must be changed to better protect
metro node from misuse or abuse of those privileges. Use the command vplex_system_config --idrac to change the
password.
● To retrieve the auto-generated password, run /opt/dell/vplex/system_config/bin/
system_config_collect.py --SHOW-IDRAC-PWD.
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