Creating A New Connection Profile

A connection profile stores the credentials that the virtual appliance uses to communicate with Dell servers. Each Dell server must be associated with only one connection profile to be managed by the Dell Management Plug-in. You may assign multiple servers to a single connection profile. Creating the Connection Profile is similar between the Configuration Wizard and from the Dell Management Center Settings. You can run the Configuration Wizard when you first access the Dell Management Console, or run it later on the Settings window.

To create a new connection profile:

  1. In the Dell Management Center, in the left pane, click Connection Profiles.

  2. Under Available Profiles, click Create New.

  3. In the New Connection Profile window, enter the Profile Name and an optional Description that are used to help manage custom connection profiles, and then click Next.

  4. For Associated Hosts, using the check boxes, select the hosts for the connection profile and click Next.

  5. In the Credentials window, view the information about credentials and connection protocols and click Next.

  6. In the iDRAC window, enter the iDRAC credential information.

    1. Enter the User Name, Password, and Verify Password. The passwords must match and use ASCII-printable characters only.

    2. For Certificate Check, to download and store the iDRAC certificate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable, or select Disable to perform no check and not store the certificate.

      You need to select Enable if you are using Active-Directory.
  7. Click Next.

  8. In the Host Root Credentials window, do the following:

    1. Enter the User Name, Password, and Verify Password. The passwords must match.

    2. For Certificate Check, to download and store the OMSA certificate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable , or select Disable to perform no check and not store the certificate. Select Enable if you use Active Directory.

  9. Click Next.

  10. The Test Connection window tests the entered iDRAC and Host Root Credentials on the selected servers. Do one of the following:

  11. To complete the profile, click Save.

    To manage connection profiles, see Managing Connection Profiles.