Users Guide

Monitoring network devices using RACADM
To view the network device information, use the hwinventory and nicstatistics commands. For more
information, see the iDRAC8 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 subcommand. For more
information, see the
iDRAC8 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
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