Hello and welcome to this Dell Power Protect Data Manager appliance video showcasing how to integrate Active Directory with Power Protect Data Manager appliance. The Power Protect DM 5500 is an integrated data protection appliance that offers powerful and secure protection of modern workloads, all designed with the end user in mind with ease of use and one user interface. The DM 5500 also has flexible and reliable upgrades, health monitoring, reporting, and a single license model based on back-end usable capacity from 12 terabytes to 96 terabytes in 12 terabyte increments.
One of the prerequisites for integrating Active Directory is to ensure that all AD members have the UID number defined in their corresponding profile. Now let's see how to integrate Active Directory with the Dell Power Protect Data Manager appliance. Enter the appliance management IP in your Chrome browser and the main login screen appears. We'll log in as admin and use the password that was set during the initial deployment on the appliance dashboard. To start the AD integration, select Administration, Access Control, then select the Directory Settings tab.
Here we click the Add button to display the Add Directory dialogue, where we enter the server address, domain username, and password details. The group search base is an optional field to use if there is a preferred group search criteria for the user. We then click Verify to validate the certificates issued by Active Directory, and finally, we click Save. We have now successfully integrated our Active Directory server with the Power Protect Data Manager appliance.
The next step is to define the group-to-role mapping for our AD groups. On the left side of the screen, click Users Groups, click the Add User Group button, and select the radio button next to the AD Group option. From the drop-down menu, select the AD domain name and enter a group name of your choosing. Click Next. On the Role page, we select a role to assign to a particular group, such as Administrator, Backup Administrator, or User. Clicking each role displays its privileges. In this case, we select the Administrator role for this group, which we call Backup Admin. Review the summary page and click Finish. We've now successfully created a group-to-role mapping for this AD group.
The Administrator role has access to all assets. Next, we'll assign the User role to a different group that we'll call Backup User. The User role has fewer privileges than the Administrator role, as we'll see. Using our AD administrator credentials, let's log into the appliance to see our asset sources. Here, we see a variety of asset types that we can enable. Let's log out now and log back in with AD user credentials. Because the User role on the appliance has limited access, the Backup User does not see the option to enable additional asset sources. Furthermore, clicking Disable Asset Source has no effect.
This concludes the Active Directory integration video. To get more information about the Power Protect DM 5500, please check out these links for additional resources such as white papers, videos, and blogs. Thanks for watching.
