Users Guide

Inventorying, 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)
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 configuration 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
Monitoring network devices using web interface
To view the network device information using Web interface, go to System > Overview > Network Devices. The Network Devices
page is displayed. For more information about the displayed properties, see iDRAC Online Help.
Monitoring network devices using RACADM
To view information about network devices, use the hwinventory and nicstatistics commands.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM CLI Guide available at www.dell.com/idracmanuals.
Additional properties may be displayed when using RACADM or WSMan in addition to the properties displayed in the iDRAC web interface.
Connection View
Manually checking and troubleshooting the servers’ networking connections is unmanageable in a datacenter environment. iDRAC9
streamlines the job with iDRAC Connection View. This feature allows you to remotely check and troubleshoot network connections from
the same centralized GUI that you are using for deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining the servers. Connection View in iDRAC9
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