Users Guide

138 Using Microsoft Active Directory
2 Type the system, device, or group name and click OK .
3 In the Properties window, click Apply and then OK .
Configuring Your Systems or Devices
For instructions on how to configure your Server Administrator or IT Assistant
systems using CLI commands, see "Configuring Active Directory Using CLI on
Systems Running Server Administrator". For DRAC users, see the Dell
Remote Access Controller 4 User’s Guide or Dell Remote Access Controller 5
User’s Guide. For iDRAC users, see the
Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller User's Guide.
NOTE: The systems on which Server Administrator and/or IT Assistant are installed
must be a part of the Active Directory domain and should also have computer
accounts on the domain.
Configuring Active Directory Using CLI on Systems Running Server Administrator
You can use the omconfig preferences dirservice command to configure the
Active Directory service. The
product oem.ini file is modified to reflect these
changes. If the adproductname is not present in the
product oem.ini file, a
default name will be assigned. The default value will be
system name-
software-product name
, where system name is the name of the system running
Server Administrator, and
software-product name refers to the name of the
software product defined in omprv32.ini (that is,
computerName -omsa).
NOTE: This command is applicable only on systems running the Windows
operating system.
NOTE: Restart the Server Administrator service after you have configured Active
Directory.
Table 9-13 shows the valid parameters for the command.
Table 9-13. Active Directory Service Configuration Parameters
name=value pair Description
prodname=<text> Specifies the software product to which you want to apply
the Active Directory configuration changes. Prodname
refers to the name of the product defined in omprv32.ini.
For Server Administrator, it is omsa.