Users Guide

Table Of Contents
Memory
Click the Memory object to manage your system's memory devices. Server Administrator monitors the memory device status
for each memory module present in the monitored system. Memory device prefailure sensors monitor memory modules by
counting the number of ECC memory corrections. Server Administrator also monitors memory redundancy information if your
system supports this feature. The Memory object action window can have the following tabs, depending on the user's group
privileges: Properties and Alert Management.
Properties
Subtab: Memory
Under the Properties tab, you can view the memory redundancy status, memory array attributes, total capacity of the memory
arrays, details of memory arrays, memory device details, and memory device status. The memory device details provide the
details of a memory device on a connector such as the status, device name, size, type, speed, rank, and failures. A rank is a
row of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices including 64 bits of data per Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM). The
possible values of rank are single, dual, quad, octal, and hexa. The rank displays the rank of the DIMM and helps in
the easy service of DIMMs on the server.
NOTE: If a system with spare bank memory enabled enters a redundancy lost state, it may not be apparent which memory
module is the cause. If you cannot determine which DIMM to replace, see the switch to spare memory bank detected log
entry in the ESM system log to find which memory module failed.
Alert Management
Subtabs: Alert Actions | SNMP Traps
Under the Alert Management tab, you can:
View the current alert actions settings and set the alert actions that you want to be performed in case a memory module
returns a warning or failure value.
View the current SNMP trap alert thresholds and set the alert threshold levels for memory modules. The selected traps are
triggered if the system generates a corresponding event at the selected severity level.
Network
Click the Network object to manage your system's NICs. Server Administrator monitors the status of each NIC present in your
system to ensure continuous remote connection. Server Administrator reports FCoE and iSoE capabilities of the NICs. Also, NIC
teaming details are reported if they are already configured on the system. Two or more physical NICs can be teamed into a
single logical NIC, to which an administrator can assign an IP address. Teaming can be configured using NIC vendor tools. For
example, Broadcom BACS. If one of the physical NICs fails, the IP address remains accessible because it is bound to the
logical NIC rather than to a single physical NIC. If Team Interface is configured, the detailed team properties are displayed. The
relation between physical NICs and Team Interface and vice-versa is also reported, if these physical NICs are members of the
Team Interface.
On Windows 2008 Hypervisor operating system, Server Administrator does not report the IP addresses of the physical NIC
ports that are used to assign an IP to a virtual machine.
NOTE:
The order in which devices are detected is not guaranteed to match the physical port ordering of the device. Click
the hyperlink under Interface Name to view NIC information.
In ESXi operating system, the network device is considered a group. For example, the virtual ethernet interface that is used by
the Service Console (vswif) and virtual network interface that is used by vmknic device on ESXi.
NOTE:
The Server Administrator supports only inventory of physical network interfaces and its properties. Server
Administrator does not support inventory of logical interfaces like VLAN and Bonded.
The Network object action window can have the following tab, depending on the user's group privileges: Properties.
Properties
Subtab: Information
Under the Properties tab, you can view information about the physical NIC interfaces and also the team interfaces installed on
your system.
NOTE:
In the IPv6 Addresses section, Server Administrator displays only two addresses, in addition to the link-local
address.
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