Users Guide

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 WSMAN 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
Related concepts
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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 configuration of virtual addresses, initiator,
and storage target settings
You can dynamically view and configure 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 flexibility in
deployments that need rapid re-configuration of system workloads to another system.
The virtual addresses are:
● Virtual MAC Address
● Virtual iSCSI MAC Address
● Virtual FIP MAC Address
● Virtual WWN
● Virtual WWPN
NOTE:
When you clear the persistence policy, all the virtual addresses are reset to the default permanent address set at
the factory.
NOTE: Some cards with the virtual FIP, virtual WWN, and virtual WWPN MAC attributes, the virtual WWN and virtual
WWPN MAC attributes are automatically configured when you configure virtual FIP.
Using the IO Identity feature, you can:
● View and configure the virtual addresses for network and fibre channel devices (for example, NIC, CNA, FC HBA).
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