Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Privilege

Description

Provides services to the chassis, such as date and time, firmware

update, and CMC reset.

Is associated with the chassis, such as slot name and slot priority.

Although these properties apply to the servers, they are strictly chassis

properties relating to the slots rather than the servers themselves. For

this reason, slot names and slot priorities can be added or changed

whether or not servers are present in the slots.

When a server is moved to a different chassis, it inherits the slot name and

priority assigned to the slot it occupies in the new chassis. Its previous slot

name and priority remain with the previous chassis.

NOTE: CMC users with the Chassis Configuration Administrator privilege

can configure power settings. However, the Chassis Control

Administrator privilege is needed to perform chassis power operations,

including power on, power off, and power cycle.

User Configuration Administrator

User can:

Add a new user.

Change a user's password.

Change a user's privileges.

Enable or disable a user's login privilege but retain the user's name and

other privileges in the database.

Clear Logs Administrator

User can clear the hardware log and CMC log.

Chassis Control Administrator (Power
Commands)

CMC users with the Chassis Power Administrator privilege can perform all
power-related operations. They can control chassis power operations,
including power on, power off, and power cycle.

NOTE: To configure power settings, the Chassis Configuration
Administrator privilege is needed.

Server Administrator

This is a blanket privilege, granting a CMC user all rights to perform any
operation on any servers present in the chassis.
When a user with Server Administrator privilege issues an action to be

performed on a server, the CMC firmware sends the command to the

targeted server without checking the user's privileges on the server. In other

words, the Server Administrator privilege overrides any lack of administrator

privileges on the server.
Without the Server Administrator privilege, a user created on the chassis

can only execute a command on a server when all of the following conditions

are true:

The same user name exists on the server.

The same user name must have the same password on the server.

The user must have the privilege to execute the command.

When a CMC user who does not have Server Administrator privilege issues

an action to be performed on a server, CMC sends a command to the

targeted server with the user’s login name and password. If the user does

not exist on the server, or if the password does not match, the user is denied

the ability to perform the action.
If the user exists on the target server and the password matches, the server

responds with the privileges of which the user was granted on the server.

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