Users Guide

NOTE: On the following Operating Systems, you can recognize the users of CMC users by using Active Directory.
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
You can congure user authentication through Active Directory to log in to the CMC. You can also provide role-based authority, which
enables an administrator to congure specic privileges for each user.
Supported Active Directory Authentication Mechanisms
You can use Active Directory to dene CMC user access using two methods:
• Standard schema solution that uses Microsoft’s default Active Directory group objects only.
• Extended schema solution that has customized Active Directory objects provided by Dell. All the access control objects are maintained
in Active Directory. It provides maximum exibility to congure user access on dierent CMCs with varying privilege levels.
Standard Schema Active Directory Overview
As shown in the following gure, using standard schema for Active Directory integration requires conguration on both Active Directory and
CMC.
In Active Directory, a standard group object is used as a role group. A user who has CMC access is a member of the role group. To give this
user access to a specic CMC card, the role group name and its domain name need to be congured on the specic CMC card. The role
and the privilege level is dened on each CMC card and not in the Active Directory. You can congure up to ve role groups in each CMC.
The following table shows the default role group privileges.
Table 23. : Default Role Group Privileges
Role Group Default Privilege Level Permissions Granted Bit Mask
1 None
• CMC Login User
• Chassis Conguration Administrator
• User Conguration Administrator
• Clear Logs Administrator
• Chassis Control Administrator (Power Commands)
• Server Administrator
• Test Alert User
• Debug Command Administrator
• Fabric A Administrator
0x00000f
2 None
• CMC Login User
• Clear Logs Administrator
• Chassis Control Administrator (Power Commands)
• Server Administrator
• Test Alert User
• Fabric A Administrator
0x00000ed9
3 None CMC Login User 0x00000001
4 None No assigned permissions 0x00000000
5 None No assigned permissions 0x00000000
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