Users Guide
• For hosts already congured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select the Use
Active Directory check box; otherwise skip down to congure your Host Credentials.
– In the Active Directory User Name text box, type the user name. Type the username in one of these formats: domain
\username or domain/username or username@domain. The user name is limited to 256 characters. Refer to Microsoft
Active Directory documentation for user name restrictions.
– In the Active Directory Password text box, type the password. The password is limited to 127 characters.
– In the Verify Password text box, type the password again.
– In the Certicate Check drop-down list, select one of the following:
* To download and store the Host certicate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable .
* To perform no check and not store the Host certicate, select Disabled.
• To congure Host Credentials without Active Directory, do the following:
– In the Password text box type the password for the root user. The password is limited to 127 characters.
– In the Verify Password text box, type the password again.
– In the Certicate Check drop-down list, select one of the following:
* To download and store the Host certicate and validate it during all future connections, select Enabled .
* To perform no check and not store the Host certicate, select Disabled.
9. Click Next.
10. The Test Selected link is used to validate the provided iDRAC and Host Credentials for the selected servers.
• To begin the test, select the hosts and click Test Selected. The other options are inactive.
• To abort all the running connection tests,click Abort Tests.
NOTE: For servers that do not have either an iDRAC Express or iDRAC Enterprise, the iDRAC test connection result
states Not Applicable for this system.
11. To complete the prole, click Save.
To manage connection proles, see Managing Connection Proles.
Conguring Events And Alarms
The Dell Management Center Events and Alarms page enables or disables all hardware alarms. The current alert status is displayed
on the vCenter Alarms tab. A critical event indicates actual or imminent data loss or system malfunction. A warning event is not
necessarily signicant, but may indicate a possible future problem. Events and alarms can also be enabled using the VMware Alarm
Manager. Events are displayed on the vCenter Tasks & Events tab in the Hosts and Clusters view.
NOTE: On hosts prior to 12th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, this feature requires that the virtual appliance is
congured as a trap destination in OMSA to display host events in vCenter. For more information on OMSA, see
Setting
Up An OMSA Trap Destination.
You can congure events and alarms using in the Dell Management Center under the Settings option for Events and Alarms.
To congure events and alarms:
1. In the Dell Management Center, under Settings → Events and Alarms , click Edit.
2. Under Event Posting Levels, select one of the following:
• Do not post any events - Block hardware events.
• Post All Events - Post all hardware events.
• Post only Critical and Warning Events - Post only critical or warning level hardware events.
• Post only Virtualization-Related Critical and Warning Events - Post only virtualization-related critical and warning events; this
is the default event posting level.
3. To enable all hardware alarms and events, select the Enable Alarms for Dell Hosts check box.
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