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5 Automatically viewing the network switch physical connection between iDRAC & server network ports
1 Introduction
Manually checking and troubleshooting your server's networking connection is a challenge. In data centers,
there is always a requirement to visualize physical connectivity between servers and adjacent switches. This
feature provides details of the physical mapping of iDRAC & server network ports to the switch. The server
network ports include those on PowerEdge LOM, NDC, Mezz cards, PCIe add-in cards, and standard PCIe
cards. Using the connection view feature, iDRAC user interfaces provide the switch port details which help the
customers in resolving cabling errors in data centers and catch them through iDRAC user interfaces would
save hundreds of hours per year. This feature is supported on the Dell EMC 14th generation and later
PowerEdge servers.