Users Guide

Using the RACADM Command Line Interface 169

NOTE: When you manually enable or disable a user with the racadm config subcommand, you must specify the

index with the -i option. Observe that the cfgUserAdminIndex object displayed in the previous example contains a

'#' character. Also, if you use the racadm config -f racadm.cfg command to specify any number of groups/objects

to write, the index cannot be specified. A new user is added to the first

available index. This behavior allows more

flexibility in configuring multiple DRAC 5s with the same settings.

Adding a DRAC 5 User

To add a new user to the RAC configuration, a few basic commands can be used. In general, perform the

following procedures:

Set the user name.

Set the password.

Set the user privileges.

Enable the user.

Example

The following example describes how to add a new user named "John" with a "123456" password and

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminUserName -i 2 john

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2 123456

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 2 -o cfgUserPrivilege 0x00000001

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 2 -o cfgUserAdminEnable 1

To verify, use one of the following commands:

racadm getconfig -u john

racadm getconfig –g cfgUserAdmin –i 2

Removing a DRAC 5 User

When using RACADM, users must be disabled manually and on an individual basis. Users cannot be

deleted by using a configuration file.

The following example illustrates the command syntax that can be used to delete a RAC user:

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminUserName -i <index> ""

A null string of double quote characters ("") instructs the DRAC 5 to remove the user configuration at

the specified index and reset the user configuration to the original factory defaults.

Testing Email Alerting

The RAC email alerting feature allows users to receive email alerts when a critical event occurs on the

managed system. The following example shows how to test the email alerting feature to ensure that the

RAC can properly send out email alerts across the network.