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Table 5-37. Network Settings
Setting Description
CMC MAC Address Displays the chassis’ MAC address, which is a unique identifier
for the chassis over the computer network.
Enable CMC
Network Interface
Enables the Network Interface of CMC.
Default: Enabled. If this option is checked:
• CMC communicates with and is accessible over the computer
network.
• The Web interface, CLI (remote RACADM), WSMAN,
Telnet, and SSH associated with CMC are available.
If this option is not checked:
• The CMC Network Interface cannot communicate over the
network.
• Communication to the chassis through CMC is not available.
• The Web interface, CLI (remote RACADM), WSMAN,
Telnet, and SSH associated with the CMC are not available.
• The server iDRAC Web interface, local CLI, I/O modules,
and iKVM are still accessible.
• Network addresses for the iDRAC6 and CMC can be
obtained, in this case, from the chassis' LCD.
NOTE: Access to the other network-accessible components in
the chassis is not affected when the network on the chassis is
disabled (or lost).
Register CMC on
DNS
This property registers the CMC name on the DNS Server.
Default: Unchecked (disabled) by default.
NOTE: Some DNS Servers only register names of 31 characters
or fewer. Make sure the designated name is within the DNS
required limit.
DNS CMC Name Displays the CMC name only when Register CMC on DNS is
selected. The default CMC name is CMC_service_tag, where
service tag is the service tag of the chassis, for example: CMC-
00002. The maximum number of characters is 63. The first
character must be a letter (a-z, A-Z), followed by an
alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) or a hyphen (-) characters.