Users Guide

DRAC 5 Overview 23
Disabling the Whitelist Feature in Mozilla Firefox
Firefox includes a "whitelist" feature that provides additional security. When the whitelist feature is
enabled, the browser requires user permission to install plugins for each distinct site that hosts the
plugin. This process requires you to install a plugin for each distinct RAC IP/DNSname, even though the
plugin versions are identical.
To disable the whitelist feature and avoid repetitive, unnecessary plugin installations, perform the
following steps:
1
Open a Firefox Web browser window.
2 In the address field, type the following and press <Enter>:
about:config
3
In the Preference Name column, locate and double-click xpinstall.whitelist.required .
The values for
Preference Name , Status , Ty p e , and Va lue change to bold text. The Status value
changes to
user set and the Va lue value changes to false .
4 In the Preferences Name column, locate xpinstall.enabled .
Ensure that
Va lue is true . If not, double-click xpinstall.enabled to set Va lue to true .
Features
The DRAC 5 provides the following features:
• Dynamic Domain Name System (DNS) registration
• Remote system management and monitoring using a Web-based interface, serial connection, remote
RACADM, or telnet connection.
• Support for Active Directory authentication — Centralizes all DRAC 5 user ID and passwords in
Active Directory using Standard Schema and Extended Schema.
• Console Redirection — Provides remote system keyboard, video, and mouse functions.
• Virtual Media — Enables a managed system to access a media drive on the management station.
• Access to system event logs — Provides access to the system event log (SEL), DRAC 5 log, and last
crash screen of the crashed or unresponsive system that is independent of the operating system state.
• Dell OpenManage™ software integration — Enables you to launch the DRAC5 Web-based interface
from Dell OpenManage Server Administrator or IT Assistant.
• RAC alert — Alerts you to potential managed node issues through e-mail messages or an SNMP trap
using the
Dedicated , Shared with Failover , or Shared NIC settings.
• Local and remote configuration — Provides local and remote configuration using the RACADM
command-line utility.
• Remote power management — Provides remote power management functions from a management
console, such as shutdown and reset.