HP OneView manual Managing enclosure interconnect hardware, About interconnects

16 Managing interconnects, logical interconnects, and logical interconnect groups

A logical interconnect group acts as a recipe for creating a logical interconnect representing the available networks, uplink sets, stacking links, and interconnect settings for a set of physical interconnects in a single enclosure.

UI screens and REST API resources

UI screen	REST API resource
Interconnects	interconnects
Logical Interconnects	logical-interconnects
Logical Interconnect Groups	logical-interconnect-groups

16.1 Managing enclosure interconnect hardware

When you add an enclosure, any interconnects in the enclosure are also added to the management domain, and they remain in the domain as long as the enclosure is part of the domain. You can manage enclosure interconnect hardware from the UI Interconnects screen or by using the REST APIs.

16.1.1Roles

•Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Network administrator

16.1.2Tasks

The appliance online help provides information about using the UI or the REST APIs to:

•Enable or disable uplink ports or downlink ports.

•Add a physical interconnect.

•View data transfer statistics for uplink and downlink ports.

•Clear port counters.

•Replace a physical interconnect.

•Reapply an interconnect configuration.

16.1.3About interconnects

Interconnects enable communication between the server hardware in the enclosure and the data center networks. An interconnect has several types of links:

Uplinks	Uplinks are physical ports that connect the interconnect to the data center
	networks.
Downlinks	Downlinks connect the interconnect to the server hardware through the
	enclosure midplane.
Stacking links	Stacking links, which can be internal or external, connect interconnects
	together to provide redundant paths for Ethernet traffic from server blades
	to the data center networks.

Interconnects are added automatically when the enclosure that contains them is added to the appliance.

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