Users Guide

4. Use the Filter text box to enter a lter for the inventory data.
5. To refresh the displayed inventory, click Refresh.
Managing Connection Proles
Connection proles associate access and deployment credentials with a set of host systems and typically contain:
• Prole name and unique description (to help with prole management)
• A list of hosts associated with the connection prole
• iDRAC credentials
• Host credentials
• Date Created
• Date Modied
• Last Modied User
After you run the Conguration Wizard, you manage credential proles from the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
Manage tab → Templates & Proles using the following:
• Creating A Connection Prole
• Viewing And Editing An Existing Connection Prole
• Deleting A Connection Prole
• Testing A Connection Prole
• Refreshing A Connection Prole
Viewing Or Editing An Existing Connection Prole
After you have congured a connection prole, you can edit the prole name, description, associated hosts, and iDRAC and OMSA
Agent credentials.
To view or edit an existing connection prole:
1. From the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, select Connection Proles.
2. Under Available Proles, select the prole to view or edit and then click Edit/View.
3. In the Prole Name and Description page, enter the Connection Prole Name and an optional Connection Prole
Description
that are used to help manage custom connection proles.
4. In the Associated Hosts page, select the hosts for the connection prole and click Next.
5. In the Credentials page, read the information and click Next.
6. In the iDRAC page, under Credentials, do one of the following:
NOTE: The iDRAC account requires administrative privileges for updating rmware, applying hardware proles, and
deploying hypervisor.
• For iDRACs already congured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select the Use
Active Directory check box; otherwise skip down to congure the iDRAC 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 Certicate Check drop-down list, select one of the following:
* To download and store the iDRAC certicate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable .
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