126 User Guide Integrated
Only the iLO Shared Network Port or the iLO Dedicated Management NIC port can be used for iLO server management at one time. The iLO Shared Network Port and the iLO Dedicated Management NIC port cannot operate simultaneously. Enabling the dedicated iLO NIC disables the iLO Shared Network Port, and enabling the iLO Shared Network Port disables the dedicated iLO NIC.
Disabling the Shared Network Port does not completely disable the system NIC. Regular network traffic still passes through the system NIC. When the Shared Network Port network traffic is disabled any traffic going to or originating from iLO is not passed on to iLO through the shared Network Port because the port is no longer shared with iLO.
The speed of the Shared Network Port is relatively low compared to the dedicated iLO Management Port. Only a limited number of iLO features are supported through the Shared Network Port. These include:
•Command line interface
•XML scripting
•Virtual Serial Port
•Text based Remote Console
•SNMP protocol
Due to the relatively low performance of the Shared Network Port, certain operations performed over the Virtual Serial Port connection may perform at less than optimum levels. In particular, display or text editing operations involving the display of large amounts of data may result in some dropped characters. The loss of characters affects the display only, and does not affect the data stored on the server.
The iLO Web interface is not supported through the Shared Network Port, including:
•Graphical Remote Console
•Virtual Media