Users Guide

44 Using Server Administrator
Logging In and Out
To log in to Server Administrator, type your preassigned Username and Password in the appropriate fields
on the Systems Management Log in window. See "Single Sign-On" for information on how you can
bypass the login page and access the Server Administrator Web application by clicking on the
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator icon on your desktop.
NOTE: You must have preassigned user rights to log in to Server Administrator. See "Setup and Administration" for
instructions on setting up new users.
If you are accessing Server Administrator from a defined domain, you will also need to specify the correct
Domain name.
NOTE: The Application drop-down menu will appear as a non-selectable field for systems that can only access
one Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
component. The drop-down menu is only functional when two or more
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator components are available on the managed system.
Select the Active Directory Login check box to log in using Microsoft
®
Active Directory
®
.
To end your Server Administrator session, click Log Out on the "global navigation bar." The Log Out
button is located in the upper-right corner of each Server Administrator home page.
Single Sign-On
The Single Sign-On option in Microsoft Windows
®
enables all logged-in users to bypass the login page
and access the Server Administrator Web application by clicking the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator icon on your desktop.
NOTE: See the Knowledge Base article at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q258063 for
more information on Single Sign-On.
For local machine access, you must have an account on the machine with the appropriate
privileges (User, Power User, or Administrator). Other users are authenticated against the Microsoft
Active Directory.
To launch Server Administrator using Single Sign-On authentication against Microsoft Active Directory,
the following parameters must also be passed in:
authType=ntlm&application=[plugin name]
Where plugin name = omsa, ita, etc.
For example:
https://localhost:1311/?authType=ntlm&application=omsa
To launch Server Administrator using Single Sign-On authentication against the local machine user
accounts, the following parameters must also be passed in:
authType=ntlm&application=[plugin name]&locallogin=true
Where plugin name = omsa, ita, etc.