Users Guide
Inventorying, monitoring, and conguring
network devices
You can inventory, monitor, and congure the following network devices:
• Network Interface Cards (NICs)
• Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)
• LAN On Motherboards (LOMs)
• Network Daughter Cards (NDCs)
• Mezzanine cards (only for blade servers)
Before you disable NPAR or an individual partition on CNA devices, ensure that you clear all I/O identity attributes (Example: IP address,
virtual addresses, initiator, and storage targets) and partition-level attributes (Example: Bandwidth allocation). You can disable a partition
either by changing the VirtualizationMode attribute setting to NPAR or by disabling all personalities on a partition.
Depending on the type of installed CNA device, the settings of partition attributes may not be retained from the last time the partition was
active. Set all I/O identity attributes and partition-related attributes when enabling a partition. You can enable a partition by either changing
the VirtualizationMode attribute setting to NPAR or by enabling a personality (Example: NicMode) on the partition.
Topics:
• Inventorying and monitoring network devices
• Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices
• Dynamic conguration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings
Related link
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices
Dynamic conguration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings
Inventorying and monitoring network devices
You can remotely monitor the health and view the inventory of the network devices in the managed system.
For each device, you can view the following information of the ports and enabled partitions:
• Link Status
• Properties
• Settings and Capabilities
• Receive and Transmit Statistics
• iSCSI, FCoE initiator, and target information
Related link
Inventorying, monitoring, and conguring network devices
Dynamic conguration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings
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