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 iDRAC7 devices. This model provides
an administrator maximum flexibility over the different combinations
of users, iDRAC7 privileges, and iDRAC7 devices on the network without
much complexity.
For each physical iDRAC7 device on the network that you want to
integrate with Active Directory for authentication and authorization,
create at least one association object and one iDRAC7 device object.
You can create multiple association objects, and each association
object can be linked to as many users, groups of users, or iDRAC7
device objects as required. The users and iDRAC7 user groups can be
members of any domain in the enterprise.
However, each association object can be linked (or, may link users,
groups of users, or iDRAC7 device objects) to only one privilege object.
This example allows an administrator to control each user’s privileges
on specific iDRAC7 devices.
iDRAC7 device object is the link to iDRAC7 firmware for querying
Active Directory for authentication and authorization. When iDRAC7
is added to the network, the administrator must configure iDRAC7 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 iDRAC7 to at least one association object
for users to authenticate.
The following figure shows that the association object provides
the connection that is needed for the authentication and authorization.
Figure 1. Typical Setup for Active Directory Objects 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 iDRAC7 Device Object for each iDRAC7 device on the network
that you want to integrate with Active Directory for Authentication
and Authorization with iDRAC7.
The Association Object allows for as many or as few users and/or
groups as well as iDRAC7 Device Objects. However, the Association
Object only includes one Privilege Object per Association Object.
The Association Object connects the Users who have Privileges on iDRAC7
devices.
The Dell extension to the ADUC MMC Snap-in only allows associating
the Privilege Object and iDRAC7 Objects from the same domain with
the Association Object. The Dell extension does not allow a group
or an iDRAC7 object from other domains to be added as a product member
of the Association Object.
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.
Users, user groups, or nested user groups from any domain can be
added into the Association Object. Extended Schema solutions support
any user group type and any user group nesting across multiple domains
allowed by Microsoft Active Directory.