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15 NIC or CNA Card Management
This feature provides the ability to get and set the Network Interface (NIC) Card or Converged
Network Adapter (CNA) attributes that are configurable using NIC/CNA Option-ROM or NIC/CNA
UEFI HII. The attributes include functionalities for the following:
 Partition and personality (CNA only)
 iSCSI boot and PXE boot that are part of the NIC/CNA firmware
The ability to configure CNAs has been added to the NIC profile that extends the management
capabilities of the referencing profiles. The NICs/CNAs are modeled as views with collections
of attributes where there is a view for each partition on the controller.
The NIC/CNA Inventory has these classes and views:
1. DCIM_NICEnumeration, (see Section 15.1)
2. DCIM_NICString (see Section 15.2)
3. DCIM_NICInteger (see Section 15.3)
4. DCIM_NICView (see Section 15.4)
5. DCIM_NICCapabilities(see Section 15.5)
6. DCIM_NICStatistics(see Section 15.6)
Profile and Associated MOFS:
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.Profile
15.1 Listing the NIC or CNA Inventory-Enumeration Class
Enumerate the NICEnumeration class with the following parameters and syntax:
EXAMPLE – CNA:
wsman enumerate http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/
2/root/dcim/DCIM_NICEnumeration
-h $IPADDRESS -V -v -c dummy.cert -P 443
-u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD -j utf-8 -y basic
OUTPUT – CNA: For SAMPLE PORT 1 / PARTITION 1 (all attributes on all partitions are enumerated)
<n1:DCIM_NICEnumeration>
<n1:AttributeName>IscsiViaDHCP</n1:AttributeName>
<n1:CurrentValue>Enabled</n1:CurrentValue>
<n1:DefaultValue xsi:nil="true"/>
<n1:FQDD>NIC.Embedded.1-1</n1:FQDD>
<n1:InstanceID>NIC.Embedded.1-1:IscsiViaDHCP</n1:InstanceID>
<n1:IsReadOnly>false</n1:IsReadOnly>
<n1:PendingValue xsi:nil="true"/>
<n1:PossibleValues>Disabled</n1:PossibleValues>
<n1:PossibleValues>Enabled</n1:PossibleValues>
</n1:DCIM_NICEnumeration>
<n1:DCIM_NICEnumeration>
<n1:AttributeName>ChapAuthEnable</n1:AttributeName>
<n1:CurrentValue>Disabled</n1:CurrentValue>