Management Snap-In Installer; Directory Services For Active Directory - HP Integrated Lights-Out User Manual

Management snap-in installer

The management snap-in installer installs the snap-ins required to manage iLO objects in a Microsoft®
Active Directory Users and Computers directory or Novell ConsoleOne directory.
iLO snap-ins are used to perform the following tasks in creating an iLO directory:
Creating and managing the iLO and role objects (policy objects will be supported at a later date)
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 firmware version must be iLO v1.40 or later, or iLO v1.00 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:
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 on the
Microsoft® website (http://msdn.microsoft.com).
Installing Active Directory in the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Resource Kit
Microsoft® Knowledge Base Articles
These articles are accessed using the Knowledge Base Article ID Number Search option on the
Microsoft® website (http://support.microsoft.com/).
216999 Installing the Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows® 2000
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314978 Using the Adminpak.msi to Install a Server Administration Tool in Windows® 2000
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247078 Enabling SSL Communication over LDAP for Windows® 2000 Domain Controllers
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321051 Enabling LDAP over SSL with a Third-Party Certificate Authority
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299687 MS01-036: Function Exposed By Using LDAP over SSL Could Enable Passwords to Be
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