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iDRAC9 enhancements — Deep dive into storage and networking
10 In-band or out-of-band: Advantages of iDRAC and iSM compared to OMSA | ID 423
3.2 Enhancements for real-time network management
Along with new storage features, iDRAC also expanded and enhanced its network management. A new
feature that is found in iDRAC9 is “Connection View.” This feature provides details of the physical mapping of
switch ports to server ports and iDRAC dedicated port connections. Many of the Dell supported cards that are
used for LOM, NDC, Mezz cards, PCIe add-in cards, and Standard PCIe cards can report this feature. The
switch connection and switch port connection information are provided per network port and not per network
partition.
Aside from Connection View, iDRAC still provided in-depth inventory on networking cards. As part of
inventory, iDRAC collects following information from network devices.
Inventory Details
• Vendor name
• Number of ports
• Device Type, whether the device is Integrated, Embedded, Slot (NIC) or Mezzanine
• Slot number where the device is located
• Port supports partitioning or not
• Port is partitioned or not
• Different partitions of a port
• Partition protocols used such as NIC, iSCSI, or FCoE
• MAC addresses of port and partitions
• Media type of the port such as BASE-T, KR, KX, SFP, SFP+, and so on
• Family firmware version
• Family driver version (in case the operating server driver is installed).
• Controller capabilities such as virtual addressing, boot protocol capabilities, eSwitch, DCB, and so on
iDRAC monitors real-time information of network ports of network devices also. The following are the attributes of
ports iDRAC monitors.
Attribute
Link Status
is partition capable).
Operating system Driver
State
installed and is up.
Receive Statistics
Multicast, Broadcast packets, Runt packets, Jaber packets,
Transmit Statistics