How to Join a Brickstor to Active Directory

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Use the CLI setup.sh script to join your Brickstor to an Active Directory.

Applies to: BrickStor SP 22.2 - 23.0

 

 

 


  1. Open a terminal session to your Brickstor
  2. Run the setup script
  3. Type "14" for System Information and Administration

 

# setup.sh

RackTop Cyberconverged NAS
Initial Setup Utility
Copyright 2019 RackTop Systems, Inc.

  Main Menu

  1. Configure RMM interface.
  2. Configure nodename.
  3. Configure administrative (admin0) network interface.
  4. Configure storage (data0) network interface.
  5. Configure storage aggregate (aggr0) network interface.
  6. Configure high availability (hb0) network interface.
  7. Configure default gateway settings.
  8. Configure NTP settings.
  9. Configure DNS settings.
 10. Configure appliance for none Internet based configuration.
 11. Configure Local Key Manager.
 12. Configure TimeZone.
 13. Restart appliance.
 14. System Information and Administration.
 15. Import/Export Configuration.
 16. Exit Setup Utility.

 Please select menu option and press enter or press enter to exit.
 Use CTRL-C to exit at anytime.

 

 

 


4. Enter "11" for

"Add BrickStor appliance to Active Directory"

 

RackTop Cyberconverged NAS
Initial Setup Utility
Copyright 2019 RackTop Systems, Inc.

  System Information and Administration Menu

  1. BrickStorOS Version.
  2. Hardware list.
  3. Additional System Information
  4. License Information
  5. Show interface links.
  6. Change local password on BrickStor appliance .
  7. Add User to BrickStor appliance.
  8. Remove User from BrickStor appliance.
  9. Review current state of services.
  10. Enable or disable service.
  11. Add BrickStor appliance to Active Directory.
  12. Check Active Directory.
  13. IO Status Check.
  14. Setup Syslog Receiver.
  15. Add email to system fault notifications.
  16. Remove email from system fault notifications.
  17. Configure POSTFIX for mail relay.
  18. Test POSTFIX for mail relay.
  19. Add a license key to BrickStor.
  20. Upgrade BrickStorOS.
  21. Clickwrap BrickStorOS.
  22. Support Bundle.
  23. Reset BrickStor Appliance.
  24. Register BrickStor Appliance.

  Please select menu option and press enter or press enter to return to main menu.

 

 

Note the SMB share Warning

5. Enter username

6. Enter Active Directory FQDN

7. Enter domain password

8. Note success or failure alert

 

 

 An SMB share should be created and service running first before adding BrickStor to AD.

  Specify domain user with right to add appliance to AD: ad-admin
  Specify Active Directory FQDN: racktopsystems.com   
Enter domain password:
Joining racktoplabs.com ... this may take a minute ...
Successfully joined domain racktoplabs.com using AD server dc-01.racktoplabs.com

  Press enter to continue.

 

 

 

 

 

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