Users Guide

Inventorying, monitoring, and configuring
network devices
You can inventory, monitor, and configure the following network devices:
● Network Interface Cards (NICs)
● Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)
● LAN On Motherboards (LOMs)
● Network Daughter Cards (NDCs)
● Mezzanine cards (only for blade servers)
Before you disable NPAR or an individual partition on CNA devices, ensure that you clear all I/O identity attributes (Example: IP
address, virtual addresses, initiator, and storage targets) and partition-level attributes (Example: Bandwidth allocation). You can
disable a partition either by changing the VirtualizationMode attribute setting to NPAR or by disabling all personalities on a
partition.
Depending on the type of installed CNA device, the settings of partition attributes may not be retained from the last time the
partition was active. Set all I/O identity attributes and partition-related attributes when enabling a partition. You can enable a
partition by either changing the VirtualizationMode attribute setting to NPAR or by enabling a personality (Example: NicMode)
on the partition.
Topics:
• Inventorying and monitoring network devices
• Inventorying and monitoring FC HBA devices
• Inventorying and monitoring SFP Transceiver devices
• Telemetry Streaming
• Serial Data Capture
• Dynamic configuration of virtual addresses, initiator, and storage target settings
Inventorying and monitoring network devices
You can remotely monitor the health and view the inventory of the network devices in the managed system.
For each device, you can view the following information of the ports and enabled partitions:
● Link Status
● Properties
● Settings and Capabilities
● Receive and Transmit Statistics
● iSCSI, FCoE initiator, and target information
Monitoring network devices using web interface
To view the network device information using Web interface, go to System > Overview > Network Devices. The Network
Devices page is displayed. For more information about the displayed properties, see iDRAC Online Help.
Monitoring network devices using RACADM
To view information about network devices, use the hwinventory and nicstatistics commands.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM CLI Guide available at https://www.dell.com/idracmanuals.
Additional properties may be displayed when using RACADM or WSMan in addition to the properties displayed in the iDRAC web
interface.
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