Users Guide

6 Contents
Uploading a Server Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Viewing a Server Certificate
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Configuring Serial and Terminal Modes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Configuring IPMI and RAC Serial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Configuring Terminal Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Configuring Serial Over LAN
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Configuring Services
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Frequently Asked Questions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5 Recovering and Troubleshooting the Managed System . . . 97
First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Managing Power on a Remote System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Selecting Power Control Actions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Viewing System Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Main System Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Remote Access Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Using the System Event Log (SEL)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Viewing the Last System Crash Screen
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Using the RAC Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Using the Diagnostic Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Troubleshooting Network Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Troubleshooting Alerting Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
6 Using the DRAC 5 With Microsoft Active Directory . . . . . 105
Advantages and Disadvantages of Extended Schema and Standard Schema 105
Extended Schema Active Directory Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Active Directory Schema Extensions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Overview of the RAC Schema Extensions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Active Directory Object Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Configuring Extended Schema Active Directory to Access Your DRAC 5
110
Extending the Active Directory Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110