Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 3.10 for Dell EMC PowerEdge VRTX User's Guide

Dell has extended the schema to include an Association, Device, and Privilege property. The Association property is used to link together the users or groups with a specific set of privileges to one or more RAC devices. This model provides an administrator maximum flexibility over the different combinations of users, RAC privileges, and RAC devices on the network without much complexity.

When there are two CMCs on the network that you want to integrate with Active Directory for authentication and authorization, create at least one association object and one RAC device object for each CMC. You can create multiple association objects, and each association object can be linked to as many users, groups of users, or RAC device objects as required. The users and RAC device objects can be members of any domain in the enterprise.

However, each association object can be linked (or, may link users, groups of users, or RAC device objects) to only one privilege object. This example allows an administrator to control each user’s privileges on specific CMCs.

The RAC device object is the link to RAC firmware for querying Active Directory for authentication and authorization. When a RAC is added to the network, the administrator must configure the RAC and its device object with its Active Directory name so that users can perform authentication and authorization with Active Directory. Additionally, the administrator must add the RAC to at least one association object for users to authenticate.

You can create as many or as few association objects as required. However, you must create at least one Association Object, and you must have one RAC device object for each RAC (CMC) on the network that you want to integrate with Active Directory.

The Association Object allows as many or as few users and/or groups as well as RAC Device Objects. However, the Association Object only includes one Privilege Object per Association Object. The Association Object connects the Users who have Privileges on RACs (CMCs).

Additionally, you can configure Active Directory objects in a single domain or in multiple domains. For example, you have two CMCs (RAC1 and RAC2) and three existing Active Directory users (user1, user2, and user3). You want to give user1 and user2 an administrator privilege to both CMCs and give user3 a login privilege to the RAC2 card.

When adding Universal Groups from separate domains, create an Association Object with Universal Scope. The Default Association objects created by the Dell Schema Extender Utility are Domain Local Groups and does not work with Universal Groups from other domains.