Users Guide
End-to-End Hardware Management 47
b
For
Certificate Check
, select
Enable
to download and store the
iDRAC certificate and validate it during all future connections, or
select
Disable
to perform no check and not store the certificate.
7
Enter the in-band
OMSA
agent
credential information and click
Next
:
a
User Name
,
Password
, and
Verify Password
; the passwords must
match.
NOTE: Passwords cannot exceed 31 characters.
NOTE: The OMSA credentials are the same credentials used for ESX and
ESXi hosts.
b
For
Certificate Check
, select
Enable
to download and store the
OMSA certificate and validate it during all future connections, or
select
Disable
to perform no check and not store the certificate.
8
The
Test Connection
window tests the entered iDRAC and OMSA agent
credentials on the selected servers. Click
Test Selected
to begin the test;
the other options are inactive. To stop the tests click
Abort Tests.
9
Click
Save
to complete the profile.
To view or edit an existing connection profile:
1
From the management center, select
Connection Profiles.
2
Select the profile to edit and click
Edit/View
.
3
The
Connection Profile:
Profile name
window displays.
4
Select the profile section to edit/view, and make the appropriate changes:
•
Profile Name and Description:
Rename profile or change description
•
Associated Hosts:
Hosts using connection profiles
NOTE: When an existing server is added to a connection profile, an Inventory
Job must be manually run to update the management center with the new
server’s information.
•
iDRAC credentials:
User name, password, and certificate check
•
OMSA agent credentials:
User name, password, and certificate check
5
Click
Save
to apply changes, or click
Cancel
to eliminate changes.
6
Click
X
(upper-right corner) to close the window.
To delete a connection profile:
1
Select a profile and click
Delete
; a message is displayed.