Users Guide
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
NOTE: Emulex FC8 HBAs are not supported.
Monitoring FC HBA devices using web interface
To view the FC HBA device information using Web interface, go to System > Overview > Network Devices > 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 CLI Guide available at https://www.dell.com/idracmanuals.
Inventorying and monitoring SFP Transceiver devices
You can remotely monitor the health and view the inventory of SFP transceiver devices connected to the system. Following are
the supported transceivers:
● SFP
● SFP+
● SFP28
● SFP-DD
● QSFP
● QSFP+
● QSFP28
● QSFP-DD
● Base-T modules
● AOC & DAC cables
● RJ-45 Base-T connected with Ethernet
● Fiber channel
● IB adapter ports
Most useful transceiver information are Serial number and Part number from transceiver EPROM. These would allow to verify
the remotely installed transceivers, when troubleshooting connectivity issues. For each SFP Transceiver device, you can view
the following information for the ports:
● Vendor Name
● Part Number
● Revision
● Serial Number
● Device Identifier / Type Info
● Cable length (in meter)
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