Creating connection profile
Prerequisites
- The Active Directory user’s account exist in Active Directory.
- The iDRAC and host are configured for Active Directory based authentication.
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Steps
In the Connection Profile Description dialog box, click Next.
In the Connection Profile Name and Credentials dialog box, enter the connection Profile Name and connection profile Description, which is optional.
In the Connection Profile Name and Credentials dialog box, under iDRAC Credentials, do either of the following actions, depending on configuring iDRAC with or without Active Directory:
NOTE: The iDRAC account requires administrative privileges for updating firmware, applying hardware profiles, applying system profiles in 14th Gen servers, and deploying hypervisor.- The iDRAC IPs that are already configured and enabled for Active Directory
on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use Active
Directory; otherwise scroll down to configure the iDRAC
credentials.
- In Active Directory User Name, type the username. Type the username in one of these formats: domain\username or username@domain. The username is limited to 256.
- In Active Directory Password, type the password. The password is limited to 127 characters.
- In Verify Password, type the password again.
- Depending
on your requirement, perform one of the following actions:
- To download and store the iDRAC certificate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certificate Check.
- To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate check during all future connections, clear Enable Certificate Check.
- To configure the iDRAC credentials without Active Directory, perform
the following tasks:
- In User Name, type the username. The username is limited to 16 characters. See the iDRAC Documentation for information about username restrictions for the version of iDRAC that you are using.
- In Password, type the password. The password is limited to 20 characters.
- In Verify Password, type the password again.
- Perform one
of the following actions:
- To download and store the iDRAC certificate, and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certificate Check.
- To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate check during all future connections, clear Enable Certificate Check.
- The iDRAC IPs that are already configured and enabled for Active Directory
on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use Active
Directory; otherwise scroll down to configure the iDRAC
credentials.
In Host Root, perform one of the following steps:
- The hosts that are already configured and enabled for Active Directory
on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use Active
Directory, and perform the following steps; otherwise
configure your host credentials:
- In Active
Directory User Name, type the username. Type the username in one of these formats: domain\username or username@domain. The username is limited to 256 characters.NOTE: For host username and domain restrictions, see the following:
Host username requirements:
- Between 1 and 64 characters long
- No nonprintable characters
Host domain requirements:
- Between 1 and 64 characters long
- First character must be alphabetical.
- Cannot contain a space.
- In Active Directory Password, type the password. The password is limited to 127 characters.
- In Verify Password, type the password again.
- Perform
one of the following actions:
- To download and store the host certificate, and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certificate Check.
- To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate check during all future connections, clear Enable Certificate Check.
- In Active
Directory User Name, type the username. Type the username in one of these formats: domain\username or username@domain. The username is limited to 256 characters.
- To
configure host credentials without Active Directory, perform the following
tasks:
- In User Name, the username is root, which is the default username and you cannot change the username. However, if the Active Directory is set, you can choose any Active Directory user and not root.
- In Password, type the password. The password is limited
to 127 characters.NOTE: The OMSA credentials are the same credentials that are used for the ESXi hosts.
- In Verify Password, type the password again.
- Perform one
of the following actions:
- To download and store the host certificate, and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certificate Check.
- To not store and perform the host certificate check during all future connections, clear Enable Certificate Check.
- The hosts that are already configured and enabled for Active Directory
on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use Active
Directory, and perform the following steps; otherwise
configure your host credentials:
Click Next.
In the Connection Profile Associated Hosts dialog box, select the hosts for the connection profile and click OK.
NOTE: If the OEM hosts are not displayed on the Select Hosts window, add the OEM hosts using the Add OEM Hosts wizard, see Adding OEM hosts.To test the connection profile, select one or more hosts and click Test Connection.
NOTE: This step is optional and checks the host and iDRAC credentials. Although this step is optional, Dell EMC recommends that you test the connection profile.NOTE: If the WBEM service is disabled for all hosts running ESXi 6.5 or later, WBEM is automatically enabled when you perform the test connection and inventory on those hosts.NOTE: If you select All Registered vCenter while creating the connection profile, test connection fails for all hosts running ESXi 6.5 or later that has the WBEM service disabled. In such case, it is recommended to complete the connection profile wizard actions, run the inventory on hosts, and then test the connection profile again.NOTE: You may see that test connection is failing for the host and indicating that invalid credentials are entered, even after entering valid credentials. It may happen because the ESXi is blocking the access. Wait for 15 minutes and retry the test connection.To complete the creation of profile, click Next.
After you click next, all details that you provide in this wizard is saved and you cannot modify the details from the wizard. You can modify or create more connection profiles for this vCenter detail from the Connection Profiles page after completing the configuration from the configuration wizard. See Modifying connection profile topic in this guide..
After hosts are added to connection profile, the IP address of OMIVV is automatically set to SNMP trap destination of host's iDRAC, and OMIVV automatically enables the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) service for hosts running ESXi 6.5 and later. OMIVV uses the WBEM service to properly synchronize the ESXi host and the iDRAC relationships. If configuring the SNMP trap destination fails for particular hosts, and/or enabling the WBEM service fails for particular hosts, those hosts are listed as noncomplaint. To view the noncomplaint hosts that require SNMP trap destination to be reconfigured and/or WBEM services to be enabled, see Reporting and fixing compliance for vSphere hosts.