Dell Remote Access Controller 4 Firmware Version 1.30 manual Before Adding a Drac 4 User

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Before Adding a DRAC 4 User

The DRAC 4 allows up to 16 users to be configured into the DRAC 4 property database. Before manually adding the DRAC 4 user, you need to know which, if any, users exist. If the DRAC 4 is new, or the racadm racresetcfg command has been run, then the only user is root with the password calvin. The racresetcfg subcommand resets the DRAC 4 back to the

original defaults.

NOTICE: Use caution when using this command because all configuration parameters are reset to the original defaults; any previous changes are lost.

NOTE: Users can be added and deleted over time, so it is possible that users on the DRAC 4 do not have the same index number as the same user on a different DRAC 4.

To find out if a user exists, you can type the following command at the command prompt:

racadm getconfig -u <username>

or you can type the following command once for each index of 1–16:

racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i <index>

NOTE: An alternate method to obtain this information is to type racadm getconfig -f <myfile.cfg>, then view or edit the myfile.cfg file, which includes all DRAC 4 configuration parameters.

Several parameters and object IDs are displayed along with their current values. The two objects of interest are:

# cfgUserAdminIndex=XX

cfgUserAdminUserName=

If the cfgUserAdminUserName object has no value, that index number, which is indicated by the cfgUserAdminIndex object, is available for use. If a name appears after the "=," that index is taken by that user name.

NOTE: When you manually add or remove a user with the racadm config subcommand, you must specify the index with the -i option. Observe that the cfgUserAdminIndex object displayed in the previous example contains a '#' character. Also, if you use the racadm config -f racadm.cfg command to specify any number of groups/objects to write, the index cannot be specified. A new user is added to the first available index. This behavior allows more flexibility in configuring multiple DRAC 4s with the same settings.

Adding a DRAC 4 User Without Alert Capabilities

To add a simple user without any alert information, first locate an available user index by performing the steps in "Before Adding a DRAC 4 User." Next, type the following two command lines with the new user name and password:

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminUserName -i <index> <username>

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i <index> <password>

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Using the serial and racadm Commands