User's Manual

Using the iDRAC with Microsoft Active Directory 89
Using the iDRAC with Microsoft
Active Directory
A directory service maintains a common database of all information needed
for controlling users, computers, printers, and other devices on a network. If
your company uses the Microsoft
®
Active Directory
®
service software, you
can configure the software to provide access to the iDRAC, allowing you to
add and control iDRAC user privileges to your existing users in your Active
Directory software.
NOTE: Using Active Directory to recognize iDRAC users is supported on the
Microsoft Windows
®
2000 and Windows Server
®
2003 operating systems.
You can use Active Directory to define user access on iDRAC through an
extended schema solution which uses Dell-defined Active Directory objects
or a standard schema solution which uses Active Directory group objects only.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Extended
Schema and Standard Schema
When using Active Directory to configure access to the iDRAC, you must
choose either the extended schema or the standard schema solution.
The advantages of using the extended schema solution are:
• All of the access control objects are maintained in Active Directory.
• Maximum flexibility in configuring user access on different iDRACs with
different privilege levels.
The advantages of using the standard schema solution are:
• No schema extension is required because standard schema uses Active
Directory objects only.
• Configuration on the Active Directory side is simple.