Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 17)

• Enhanced server summary, power reporting, and power control pages.
• Forced CMC failover and virtual reseat of servers.
• iDRAC reset without rebooting the operating system.
• Support for storage array configuration using RACADM — Allows you to configure IP, join or create group, and
select fabric for storage arrays using RACADM.
• Multi-chassis management:
– capability to view up to eight other chassis from the lead chassis.
– capability to select chassis configuration properties from lead chassis and push to Group members.
– capability for Group members to keep their chassis settings synchronized with the lead chassis.
• Support to save server settings and configuration information to hard disk and restore to same or different server.
Security Features
CMC provides the following security features:
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Password-level security management — Prevents unauthorized access to a remote system.
• Centralized user authentication through:
– Active Directory using Standard Schema or an Extended Schema (optional.)
– Hardware-stored user IDs and passwords.
• Role-based authority — Enables an administrator to configure specific privileges for each user.
• User ID and password configuration through the Web interface.
NOTE: Web interface supports 128-bit SSL 3.0 encryption and 40-bit SSL 3.0 encryption (for countries where
128-bit is not acceptable).
NOTE: Telnet does not support SSL encryption.
• Configurable IP ports (if applicable).
• Login failure limits per IP address, with login blocking from the IP address when the limit is exceeded.
• Configurable session auto time out, and more than one simultaneous sessions.
• Limited IP address range for clients connecting to CMC.
• Secure Shell (SSH), which uses an encrypted layer for higher security.
• Single Sign-on, Two-Factor Authentication, and Public Key Authentication.
Chassis Overview
The following figure shows the facing edge of a CMC (inset) and the locations of the CMC slots in the chassis.
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