Skip to main content
Sign Out

Welcome to Dell

My Account
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.
Sign In Create an Account Premier Sign In Partner Program Sign In

Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.3.1 User's Guide

PDF

Add or edit Active Directory groups to be used with Directory Services

  1. Click Application Settings > Users > Directory Services, and then click Add.
  2. In the Connect to Directory Service dialog box, by default, AD is selected to indicate that directory type is Active Directory (AD):

    NOTE: To create an LDAP user group by using Directory Services, see Add or edit Lightweight Directory Access Protocol groups to be used with Directory Services.

    1. Enter a desired name for the AD directory.
    2. Select the Domain Controller Lookup method:
      • DNS: In the Method box, enter the domain name to query DNS for the domain controllers.
      • Manual: In the Method box, enter the FQDN or the IP address of the domain controller. For multiple servers, a maximum of three servers are supported, use a comma-separated list.
    3. In the Group Domain box, enter the group domain as suggested in the tool tip syntax.
  3. In the Advanced Options section:
    1. By default, Global Catalog Address port number 3269 is populated. For the Domain Controller Access, enter 636 as the port number.

      NOTE: Only LDAPS ports are supported.

    2. Enter the network timeout and search timeout duration in seconds. The maximum timeout duration supported is 300 seconds.
    3. To upload an SSL certificate, select Certificate Validation and click Select a file. The certificate should be a Root CA Certificate encoded in Base64 format.
    The Test connection tab is displayed.
  4. Click Test connection.
  5. In the dialog box, enter the username and password of the domain to be connected to.

    NOTE: The username must be entered in either the UPN (username@domain) or in the NetBIOS (domain\username) format.

  6. Click Test connection.
    In the Directory Service Information dialog box, a message is displayed to indicate successful connection.
  7. Click Ok.
  8. Click Finish.
    A job is created and run to add the requested directory in the Directory Services list.

Editing Active Directory (AD) groups to be used with Directory Services

  1. In the DIRECTORY NAME column, select the directory. The Directory Service properties are displayed in the right pane.

  2. Click Edit.

  3. In the Connect to Directory Service dialog box, edit the data and click Finish. The data is updated and saved.

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\