
3. In the Name and Credentials page, under iDRAC Credentials, do one of the following:
NOTE: The iDRAC account requires administrative privileges for updating firmware, applying hardware
profiles, and deploying hypervisor.
• For iDRACs already configured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory,
select the Use Active Directory check box; otherwise skip down to configure the iDRAC credentials.
– In the Active Directory User Name text box, type the user name. Type the username in one of these formats:
domain\username or username@domain. The user name is limited to 256 characters. Refer to Microsoft
Active Directory documentation for user name restrictions.
– In the Active Directory Password text box, type the password. The password is limited to 127 characters.
– In the Verify Password text box, 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 the
Enable Certificate Check check box.
* To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate check during all future connections, clear the Enable
Certificate Check .
• To configure iDRAC credentials without Active Directory, do the following:
– In the User Name text box, type the user name. The user name is limited to 16 characters. Refer to the
iDRAC documentation for information about user name restrictions for your version of iDRAC.
NOTE: The local iDRAC account requires administrative privileges for updating firmware, applying
hardware profiles, and deploying hypervisor.
– In the Password text box type the password. The password is limited to 20 characters.
– In the Verify Password text box, 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 check box.
* To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate check during all future connections, clear Enable
Certificate Check check box.
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