Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller This Dell technical white paper contains a business validated solution from Dell about the Dell Chassis Management Controller.
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Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller Contents Dell │ Product Group ................................................................................................ i Authors: ................................................................................................................ i Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4 Problem statement ......................
Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller Introduction This document explains the process involved with Microsoft Active Directory successfully interacting with the Dell Chassis Management Controller. The Dell Chassis Management Controller is used to manage the Enterprise Chassis environment.
Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller users using IP on your network back to the domain controller. Microsoft domain controllers are where you setup all of these services, protocols, and objects. When you setup Microsoft Active Directory you must first install a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later, which is the only server software version currently supported by the Dell Chassis Management Controller environment.
Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller The keytab file is created on the domain controller to map a basic user account to the device. This allows the Dell Chassis Management Controller to connect to DS to lookup other objects in the tree and to find the permissions allowed by the Dell Chassis Management Controller.
Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller Your workstation must look up your domain name in DNS. Use an IP address to the domain, if you do not have DNS setup. It looks up the name of the group or groups in LDAP to find the user that is requesting access to the Dell Chassis Management Controller.
Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller Only SSO: Both browsers, FireFox 3.0+ and Internet Explorer 7.0+ must be configured to implement SSO. Changes of each browser are outlined below. Only the Internet Explorer browser IE7 and later are supported for SSO. Both TFA and SSO: Microsoft Active Directory Domain controller with forest setup. Cryptographic service running on a Windows domain controller > Certificate Services.
Microsoft® Active Directory® Theory and Operation with the Dell™ Chassis Management Controller CN=Configuration, DC=ForestRootDomain, where ForestRootDomain is the LDAP distinguished name of the forest's root domain), the thumbprint of the CA's certificate is automatically distributed to all Windows 2000 and later domain members in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Microsoft\EnterpriseCertificates\NTAuth\ Certificates registry key.
