Users Guide

For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Additional properties may be displayed when using RACADM or WS-MAN in addition to the properties displayed in the iDRAC web
interface.
Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices
You can remotely monitor the health and view the inventory of the Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (FC HBA) devices in the
managed system. The Emulex and QLogic FC HBAs are supported. For each FC HBA device, you can view the following information
for the ports:
• Link Status and Information
• Port Properties
• Receive and Transmit Statistics
Related links
Inventorying, monitoring, and configuring network devices
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface
To view the FC HBA device information using Web interface, go to Overview → Hardware → Fibre Channel. For more information
about the displayed properties, see
iDRAC Online Help.
The page name also displays the slot number where the FC HBA device is available and the type of FC HBA device.
Monitoring FC HBA devices using RACADM
To view the FC HBA device information using RACADM, use the hwinventory command.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage
target settings
You can dynamically view and configure the virtual address, initiator and storage target settings, and apply a persistence policy. It
allows the application to apply the settings based on power state changes (that is, operating system restart, warm reset, cold reset,
or AC cycle) and also based on persistence policy setting for that power state. This provides more flexibility in deployments that
need rapid re-configuration of system workloads to another system.
The virtual addresses are:
• Virtual MAC Address
• Virtual iSCSI MAC Address
• Virtual FIP MAC Address
• Virtual WWN
• Virtual WWPN
NOTE: When you clear the persistence policy, all the virtual addresses are reset to the default permanent address set at
the factory.
NOTE: Some cards with the virtual FIP, virtual WWN, and virtual WWPN MAC attributes, the virtual WWN and virtual
WWPN MAC attributes are automatically configured when you configure virtual FIP.
Using the IO Identity feature, you can:
• View and configure the virtual addresses for network and fibre channel devices (for example, NIC, CNA, FC HBA).
• Configure the initiator (for iSCSI and FCoE) and storage target settings (for iSCSI, FCoE, and FC).
• Specify persistence or clearance of the configured values over a system AC power loss, cold, and warm system resets.
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