Security features, Chassis overview – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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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:

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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