Users Guide

46 Using Server Administrator

NOTE: If the certificate authority on the managed system is valid and if the

Server Administrator web server still reports an untrusted certificate error, you can

still make the managed system’s CA as trusted by using the certutil.exe. See your

operating system documentation for details on accessing this .exe. On supported

Windows operating systems, you can also use the certificates snap in option to

import certificates.

Using the Active Directory Login

You should select the "Active Directory Login" check box to log in using the

Dell Extended Schema Solution in Microsoft® Active Directory.

This solution enables you to provide access to Server Administrator; allowing

you to add/control Server Administrator users and privileges to existing users

in your Active Directory software. For more information see "Using Microsoft

Active Directory" in the

Dell OpenManage Installation and Security User's Guide

Single Sign-On

The Single Sign-On option in Microsoft Windows

enables all logged-in

users to bypass the login page and access the Server Administrator Web

application by clicking the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator icon

on your desktop.

NOTE: See the Knowledge Base article at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q258063 for

more information on Single Sign-On.

For local machine access, you must have an account on the machine with the

appropriate privileges (User, Power User, or Administrator). Other users are

authenticated against the Microsoft Active Directory. To launch Server

Administrator using Single Sign-On authentication against Microsoft Active

Directory, the following parameters must also be passed in:

authType=ntlm&application=[plugin name]

Where plugin name = omsa, ita, etc.

For example:

https://localhost:1311/?authType=ntlm&application=

omsa

To launch Server Administrator using Single Sign-On authentication against

the local machine user accounts, the following parameters must also be

passed in:

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