Users Guide

Monitoring network devices using web interface
To view the network device information using Web interface, go to Overview > Hardware > Network Devices. The Network Devices page
is displayed. For more information about the displayed properties, see iDRAC Online Help.
NOTE: If the OS Driver State displays the state as Operational, it indicates the operating system driver state or the UEFI driver
state.
Monitoring network devices using RACADM
To view information about network devices, use the hwinventory and nicstatistics commands.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Additional properties may be displayed when using RACADM or WS-MAN in addition to the properties displayed in the iDRAC web
interface.
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices
You can remotely monitor the health and view the inventory of the Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (FC HBA) devices in the managed
system. The Emulex and QLogic FC HBAs are supported. For each FC HBA device, you can view the following information for the ports:
• Link Status and Information
• Port Properties
• Receive and Transmit Statistics
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Inventorying, monitoring, and conguring network devices
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface
To view the FC HBA device information using Web interface, go to Overview > Hardware > Fibre Channel. For more information about the
displayed properties, see
iDRAC Online Help.
The page name also displays the slot number where the FC HBA device is available and the type of FC HBA device.
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM
To view the FC HBA device information using RACADM, use the hwinventory command.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Dynamic conguration of virtual addresses, initiator,
and storage target settings
You can dynamically view and congure the virtual address, initiator and storage target settings, and apply a persistence policy. It allows the
application to apply the settings based on power state changes (that is, operating system restart, warm reset, cold reset, or AC cycle) and
also based on persistence policy setting for that power state. This provides more exibility in deployments that need rapid re-conguration
of system workloads to another system.
The virtual addresses are:
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