A hospital has an HPE ProLiant environment consisting of G7 and Gen8 servers. They have a new regulatory requirement to improve security of the management interface. What should the customer do to…

Question

Options

• AInstall iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition licenses
• BUpgrade the network cards to ones that support TLS 1.2
• CIntegrate iLOs with Active Directory
• DCombine data and networks in a DMZ

• A
  8% (2)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  84% (21)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Integrating iLOs with Active Directory (C) is correct because it centralizes authentication for the management interface, enforcing organizational security policies such as password complexity, account lockout, and role-based access control - directly addressing regulatory requirements around who can access server management. Option A is a distractor because iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition licenses were designed for Gen9+ hardware, making them incompatible with the G7 (iLO 3) servers in this environment. Option B is wrong because network card TLS support governs data-plane traffic, not the iLO management interface, which handles its own encryption stack independently. Option D is actually a security anti-pattern - merging management and data traffic in a DMZ eliminates network segmentation and weakens the security posture rather than improving it.

Memory tip: Think "Management = Identity" - regulatory security requirements for interfaces almost always demand centralized identity management, and AD integration is the HPE-recommended method for enforcing consistent authentication and auditing across iLO management ports.

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