cfgNicVLanId (Read/Write)

Description

Specifies the VLAN ID for the network VLAN configuration (in

 

CMC for iDRAC6 Enterprise on Blade Servers). This property is only

 

valid if cfgNicVLanEnable is set to 1 (enabled).

Legal Values

1 – 4000 and 4021 – 4094

Default

1

Example

racadm config -g cfgLanNetworking -o

 

cfgNicVlanID 1

cfgNicVLanPriority (Read/Write)

Description

Specifies the VLAN Priority for the network VLAN configuration

 

(in CMC for iDRAC6 Enterprise on Blade Servers). This property is

 

only valid if cfgNicVLanEnable is set to 1 (enabled).

Legal Values

0-7

Default

0

Example

racadm config -g cfgLanNetworking -o

 

cfgNicVLanPriority 7

cfgDNSDomainNameFromDHCP (Read/Write)

Description

Specifies that iDRAC or CMC DNS domain name should be

 

assigned from the network DHCP server.

Legal Values

1

(TRUE)

 

0

(FALSE)

Default

0

 

For CMC, this property is used only if cfgNicUseDhcp is set to 1 (true), or if both cfgIPv6Enable and cfgIPv6AutoConfig are set to 1 (true).

The CMC can obtain its DNS domain name from either a DHCP or DHCPv6 server, if all of the following properties are set to 1 (true):

cfgNicIPv4Enable

cfgNicUseDhcp

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IDRAC6 1.95, CMC 3.2, IDRAC6 3.5 specifications

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