HP Integrated Lights-Out manual Directory Services for Active Directory

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•Making the associations between iLO objects and the role (or policy) objects

Directory Services for Active Directory

The following sections provide installation prerequisites, preparation, and a working example of Directory Services for Active Directory. HP provides a utility to automate much of the directory setup process. You can download the HP Directories Support for Management Processors on the HP website (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/lights-out/us/index.html).

Active Directory Installation Prerequisites

•The Active Directory must have a digital certificate installed to allow iLO to connect securely over the network.

•The Active Directory must have the schema extended to describe Lights-Out object classes and properties.

•The Integrated Lights-Out firmware must be version 1.40 or later.

•iLO Advanced features must be licensed.

You can evaluate iLO Advanced with a free evaluation license key that you can download from the HP website (http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/ilo/iloeval.html).

Directory Services for iLO uses LDAP over SSL to communicate with the directory servers. Before installing snap-ins and schema for Active Directory, read and have available the following documentation:

IMPORTANT: Installing Directory Services for iLO requires extending the Active Directory schema. Extending the schema must be completed by an Active Directory Schema Administrator.

•Extending the Schema in the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Resource Kit, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com (http://msdn.microsoft.com)

•Installing Active Directory in the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Resource Kit

•Microsoft® Knowledge Base Articles