Management snap-in installer, Directory services for active directory, Active directory installation prerequisites – HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Manual

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Management snap-in installer

The management snap-in installer installs the snap-ins required to manage iLO 2 objects in a
Microsoft Active Directory Users and Computers directory or Novell ConsoleOne directory.

iLO 2 snap-ins are used to perform the following tasks in creating an iLO 2 directory:

Creating and managing the iLO 2 and role objects (policy objects will be supported at a later
date).

Making the associations between iLO 2 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 at

http://www.hp.com/servers/lights-out

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Active Directory installation prerequisites

The Active Directory must have a digital certificate installed to allow iLO 2 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 2 advanced features must be licensed.

You can evaluate iLO Advanced with an evaluation license key that you can download from
the HP website at

http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/ilo/iloeval.html

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Directory Services for iLO 2 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:

140 Directory services

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