Owner's Manual

Configuring RACs Using Microsoft Active Directory 25

Creating RAC objects and Configuring RACs

Using AD Extended Schema

Dell™ has extended the AD schema to include an association, device, and

privilege property. The association property is used to link together the users

or groups with a specific set of privileges to one or more RAC devices.

For each physical RAC on the network that you need to integrate with the

AD server for authentication and authorization, it must have at least one

association object and one RAC device object.

You need specify the AD server login credentials to:

• Connect to the AD server and create the RAC device objects in the AD

server.

• Connect to the AD server and set an association object and a privilege

object for each RAC.

You can have multiple association objects, and each association object can be

linked to as many users, groups of users, or RAC device objects as required.

The users and RAC device objects can be members of any domain in the

enterprise. However, each association object can be linked (or, may link users,

groups of users, or RAC device objects) to only one privilege object.

For extended schema configuration, depending on the RAC type, the

respective extended schema objects must be assigned. For example, the old

extended schema objects are assigned to DRAC 4, DRAC 5, and CMC and

the new extended schema objects are assigned to iDRAC6. For more

information on extended schema, see the appropriate RAC user guide listed

in "Other Documents You May Need."

To create RAC objects and configure RACs using extended schema based AD

settings:

1 Discover and verify the RAC IP addresses on your network.

For more

information, see "Discovering, Importing, and Verifying RACs."

In the

Firmware Update Configuration

window, click

. The

Active

Directory Configuration

window is displayed.

The

Schema

column indicates that the RAC is configured to a standard or

extended schema. If it is not configured, the

Schema

column displays

Disabled