PowerEdge MX7000: How to configure AD and LDAP Dell EMC Technical White Paper
Revisions Revisions Date Description May 2017 Initial release Acknowledgements This paper was produced by the following members of the Dell EMC storage engineering team: Author: Nitesh Anand 2 PowerEdge MX7000: How to configure AD and LDAP | Document ID
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Introduction Introduction PowerEdge MX7000 comes with a Management Module that provides chassis management. Management Module supports High Availability with the help of a redundant module. An integral feature of the management firmware is to allow access to the system and its configuration to authorized personnel only. This technical white paper shows how users can benefit from configuring AD/LDAP.
Configuring AD/LDAP They can click on the “Add” button on this page to add a new configuration. Management Module UI interface provides an option to choose between AD and LDAP services. • • • 5 Choose the type of directory service you want to connect to. Provide directory name. This name is just a name to relate to the configuration to. Please note that this name is not the name of the group that you want to import. Choose between DNS or Manual settings for domain controller lookup.
Configuring AD/LDAP • If you do not know the details of the domain controllers in the domain from which you are planning to import the group or groups, you may want to choose DNS setting. This setting will discover the domain controllers automatically with provided configuration. For this to work, please ensure that “Register with DNS” has been enabled and the corresponding configuration for Primary/Alternate DNS Servers are provided in the Network Settings.
Configuring AD/LDAP Picture showing possible values of all different fields with LDAP configuration 7 PowerEdge MX7000: How to configure AD and LDAP | Document ID
Importing groups AD/LDAP Picture showing possible values of all different fields with ADLDS configuration • • • Customers can modify “Network Timeout” and “Search Timeout” settings as per their server and network requirement. For additional security, customers can also provide a certificate file that will be used for validation when connecting to AD/LDAP servers.
Importing groups AD/LDAP • • • 9 After selecting the directory source, customers will be prompted to enter their credentials, which will allow the application to get the list of groups from the server. Provide a few letters of the group name in the "Find a Group" field, and the groups matching the string will be listed in the section on the left below the search box. Move one of more of these groups into the right sections.
Importing groups AD/LDAP • • 10 Once all the groups are assigned roles, customer can import them. Upon successful import, a message is displayed and all the users under these groups will be able to access the Management Console with specified roles and privileges. With all these configuration in place and import completed, users of imported groups will be able to login with their domain credentials. They can provide their domain\username in the username field and the domain password in the password fiel
