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Hi,
 
I'm connecting to some of our UCS pods with PowerTool. 3 of them are configured to authenticate wit TACACS and one is configured with AD authentication. I'm not able to use Powertool to connect to the pod that requires AD authentication. It prompts for credentials, then returns this message:

Connect-Ucs : Connect-Ucs: Connection to fistlucs05 Failed.
At line:1 char:12
+ connect-ucs <<<<  fistlucs05
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (emoticon [Connect-Ucs], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId :
Cisco.Ucs.Cmdlets.ConnectUcs
 
Is there a way to get Powertool to connect with AD authentication? We don't want to set up the fourth pod to use TACACS because we're moving toward AD for our newer pods.
 
thanks,
Gary
 

Gary,

Are you using Authentication Domains ?

Can you paste the output of Connect-Ucs, run with the –Xml parameter ?

PowerTool works with AD authentication. We need to figure out the exact issue in your setup.

Thanks,
- bhaskar

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Hi,

I'm connecting to some of our UCS pods with PowerTool. 3 of them are configured to authenticate wit TACACS and one is configured with AD authentication. I'm not able to use Powertool to connect to the pod that requires AD authentication. It prompts for credentials, then returns this message:

Connect-Ucs : Connect-Ucs: Connection to fistlucs05 Failed.
At line:1 char:12
+ connect-ucs <<<< fistlucs05
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (emoticon [Connect-Ucs], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :
Cisco.Ucs.Cmdlets.ConnectUcs

Is there a way to get Powertool to connect with AD authentication? We don't want to set up the fourth pod to use TACACS because we're moving toward AD for our newer pods.

thanks,
Gary

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Hi Gary,

Find out what the name of your authentication domain for active directory is. Then try passing in the user credential prefixed with "ucs-/gary", replacing with whatever your authentication domains name is. i.e. if you've got your authentication domain name set to ActitveDirectory, then login as "ucs-ActiveDirectory/gary" with your AD password.

Sage

This suggestion worked. It looks like I posted in the right forum-- Thanks for the qucik and helpful reply!

Gary