Users Guide

NOTE: When you launch Server Administrator using either Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer, an intermediate

warning page may appear displaying a problem with security certicate. To ensure system security, it is recommended that

you generate a new X.509 certicate, reuse an existing X.509 certicate, or import a certicate chain from a Certication

Authority (CA). To avoid encountering such warning messages about the certicate, the certicate used must be from a

trusted CA. For more information about X.509 Certicate Management, see X.509 Certicate Management.

NOTE: To ensure system security, it is recommended that you import a certicate chain from a Certication Authority (CA).

For more information, see the VMware documentation.

NOTE: If the certicate authority on the managed system is valid and if the Server Administrator web server still reports an

untrusted certicate error, you can still make the managed system’s CA as trusted by using the certutil.exe le. For

information about accessing this .exe le, see your operating system documentation. On supported Windows operating

systems, you can also use the certicates snap in option to import certicates.

Using The Active Directory Login

You should select Active Directory Login to log in using the Dell Extended Schema Solution in Active Directory.

This solution enables you to provide access to Server Administrator; allowing you to add/control Server Administrator users and privileges

to existing users in your Active Directory software. For more information, see "Using Microsoft Active Directory" in the Server Administrator

Installation Guide

at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.

Single Sign-On

The Single Sign-On option in Windows operating systems enables all logged in users to bypass the login page and access the Server

Administrator web application by clicking the Server Administrator icon on your desktop.

NOTE

: For more information about Single Sign-On, see the Knowledge Base article at support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?

scid=kb;en-us;Q258063.

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:

authType=ntlm&application=[plugin name]

where plugin name = omsa, ita,, and so on.

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:

authType=ntlm&application=[plugin name]&locallogin=true

Where plugin name = omsa, ita, and so on.

For example,

https://localhost:1311/?authType=ntlm&application=omsa&locallogin=true

Server Administrator has also been extended to allow other products (such as Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials) to directly access Server

Administrator web pages without going through the login page (if you are currently logged in and have the appropriate privileges).

Using Server Administrator