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4 SFP Optical Transceiver inventory and monitoring using NC-SI | ID348
Executive summary
iDRAC inventories and monitors SFP optical transceivers and delivers diagnostic information on the device to
the user across iDRAC interfaces.
A transceiver plugs into the SFP (Small Form-factor Pluggable) port of a network device on one end and
connects to Fiber Channel/Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) optical fiber cables on the other end. The SFF-8472
specification details the communication protocol between the network device and the optical transceiver using
a 2-wire interface and diagnostic information from the SFP. iDRAC retrieves the diagnostic information from
the network device using NC-SI commands.