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Active Directory Configuration

Pros: Not having to extend the Active Directory schema

Cons: Active Directory group credentials must be entered for each iDRAC

Extended Schema:

Pros: Must configure only the Active Directory group credentials once for all iDRACs on the

domain controller

Cons: An extension to the Active Directory schema, which is irreversible, is required.

3. Set up Active Directory Service

Before configuring the Active Directory for iDRAC, Active Directory service must be set up and the

Enterprise License must be present. Check Enterprise License by following Appendix A. Active

Directory service setup steps can be found in Appendix B and C. Dell strongly suggests to follow all

the steps in Appendix B and Appendix C to setup the system, manually test it, and make sure it

works before trying to use the WSMAN commands provided in this paper to setup AD. In this way,

you can be sure the system is a working system. Then customer can try remotely setting up the

iDRAC with the procedure stated in this paper.

If Windows Server 2008 is used and the following is the setup for Active Directory service.

 Domain name: ci.local

 FQDN: SCCM.ci.local

 Group Name: iDRACAdministrators

 DNS IP address: 192.168.0.100

 iDRAC IP address: 192.168.0.120

 User Name: admin

If the customers select to use

 Standard Schema

 Static IP address

4. Set up the AD Attributes

The following attributes must be set.

a. NIC.1#DNSRegister = Disabled

b. NIC.1#DNSDomainName = ci.local

c. IPv4.1#Enable = Enabled

d. IPv4Static.1#Address = 192.168.0.120

e. IPv4.1#DHCPEnable = Disabled

f. IPv4.1#DNSFromDHCP = Disabled

g. IPv4Static.1#DNS1 = 192.168.0.100

h. IPv4Static.1#DNS2 = 0.0.0.0