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9 Automatically viewing the network switch physical connection between iDRAC & server network ports
3.2 Enabling Switch Connection View by using RACADM CLI
To View connection view capability attribute:
racadm get iDRAC. SwitchConnectionView.Enable
To modify setting of the connection view capability attribute:
racadm set iDRAC. SwitchConnectionView.Enable Enabled
Enabling Switch Connection View by using RACADM CLI
3.3 WS-Man
 To globally enable or disable the Connection View feature, the management application can use the
DCIM_iDRACService. ApplyAttribute () method from Switch Connection Profile to set the
SwitchConnectionView.1#Enable attribute. This enumeration attribute can be set to Enabled or
Disabled.
 For more information, see the iDRAC Card Profile_4.0.0 Session 8.21 and 7.5.52 in
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-profile.
 Here is an example WS-Man workflow by using SOAP to set SwitchConnectionView.1#Enable? In
this workflow, the current value of SwitchConnectionView.1#Enable will be checked and the invoke
request is sent to set a new value to the SwitchConnectionView.1#Enable attribute.
 Management applications can send the GET request for the following form to check the Current value
of the SwitchConnectionView.1#Enable attribute.