Additional properties may be displayed when using RACADM or WS-MAN in addition to the properties displayed in the iDRAC Web interface.

Inventory 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 (except FC8) 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

Inventory, 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. The FC page is displayed. 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/ support/manuals.

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.

Using the IO Identity feature, you can:

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