Installation Manual
Contents 5
Using Multiple Browser Tabs and Windows . . . . 48
Configuring the iDRAC6 NIC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring the Network and IPMI 
LAN Settings
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring IP Filtering and IP Blocking
 . . . . . . 54
Configuring Platform Events
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)
 . . . . . . 57
Configuring Platform Event Traps (PET)
 . . . . . . 58
Configuring E-Mail Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuring IPMI Using Web Interface
. . . . . . . 60
Configuring iDRAC6 Users
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Securing iDRAC6 Communications Using SSL 
and Digital Certificates
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
 . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
 . . . . . . . . . 63
Accessing SSL Through the 
Web-Based Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Generating a Certificate Signing Request
 . . . . . 65
Uploading a Server Certificate
. . . . . . . . . . . 66
Configuring and Managing Active Directory
 . . . . . . 67
Configuring and Managing Generic LDAP
 . . . . . . . 71
Configuring iDRAC6 Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Updating the iDRAC6 Firmware/System
Services Recovery Image
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
iDRAC6 Firmware Rollback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Remote Syslog
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
First Boot Device
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Remote File Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80










