Users Guide

Inventory, Monitoring, and Configuring

Network Devices

You can inventory, monitor, and configure 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)

Related concepts

Inventory and Monitoring FC HBA Devices

Dynamic Configuration of Virtual Addresses, Initiator, and Storage Target Settings

Topics:

• Inventory and Monitoring Network Devices

• Inventory and Monitoring FC HBA Devices

• Dynamic Configuration of Virtual Addresses, Initiator, and Storage Target Settings

Inventory 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 supported partitions:

• Link Status

• Properties

• Settings and Capabilities

• Receive and Transmit Statistics

Related concepts

Inventory, Monitoring, and Configuring Network Devices

Dynamic Configuration of Virtual Addresses, Initiator, and Storage Target Settings

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 the network device information, use the hwinventory and nicstatistics commands. For more information, see the iDRAC8

RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.

Additional properties may be displayed when using RACADM or WS-MAN in addition to the properties displayed in the iDRAC Web

interface.

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