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14 Automatically viewing the network switch physical connection between iDRAC & server network ports

Stale data is a last-known valid data. Switch connection and switch port connection fields will show as stale

data either in case of the network controller port link is down or when the system is powered off. Refresh

operation can be used to clear the stale data (Check refresh operation explained at the end).

The screen shot depicts the situation when stale data is displayed and user can pause the pointer over stale

data and can see the reason for the display of stale data.

Viewing stale data