White Papers

21 Automatically viewing the network switch physical connection between iDRAC & server network ports
6 Refreshing the Connection View status
An option to refresh the switch connection ID and switch port connection ID information of all network ports
will be provided on iDRAC user interfaces. When this option is used, the iDRAC will clear staled/valid switch
connection and switch port connection information and gets latest information of switch connection ID and
switch port connection ID, only if the link status is up.
6.1 iDRAC GUI
Refreshing iDRAC Connection View status
6.2 RACADM
If iDRAC.SwitchConnectionView.Enable is set to Disabled, RACADM does not allow view operation
and the following Event and Error Message is displayed:
RAC1228: The switch connection details cannot be refreshed because the switch connection view is
disabled. Enable the switch connection view by running the following RACADM command at the
command line interface (CLI), and then retry the operation: racadm set
idrac.switchconnectionview.enable 1.
To know more about the refresh command, run racadm bioscert help refresh.
6.3 WS-Man
DCIM_SwitchConnectionView class instance will be auto-refreshed after every five minutes. If the
management application wants to refresh the instance immediately, the management applications can use
the DCIM_SwitchConnectionService.ServerPortConnectionRefresh() method from the Switch
Connection Profile.
For more information, see the switch Connection Profile 4.0.0 Session 8.1 profile document at
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-profile.