Inventory And Monitoring Fc Hba Devices; Monitoring Fc Hba Devices Using Web Interface; Monitoring Fc Hba Devices Using Racadm; Viewing Flexaddress Mezzanine Card Fabric Connections - Dell iDRAC7 User Manual

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

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
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
RACADM Command Line Reference Guide for iDRAC7 and CMC available at dell.com/support/manuals.

Viewing FlexAddress Mezzanine Card Fabric Connections

In blade servers, FlexAddress allows the use of persistent, chassis-assigned World Wide Names and MAC addresses
(WWN/MAC) for each managed server port connection.
You can view the following information for each installed embedded Ethernet and optional mezzanine card port:
• Fabrics to which the cards are connected.
• Type of fabric.
• Server-assigned, chassis-assigned, or remotely assigned MAC addresses.
To view the Flex Address information in iDRAC7, configure and enable the Flex Address feature in Chassis Management
Controller (CMC). For more information, see the
support/manuals. Any existing Virtual Console or Virtual Media session terminates if the FlexAddress setting is enabled
or disabled.
NOTE: To avoid errors that may lead to an inability to turn on the managed system, you
of mezzanine card installed for each port and fabric connection.
The FlexAddress feature replaces the server–assigned MAC addresses with chassis–assigned MAC addresses and is
implemented for iDRAC7 along with blade LOMs, mezzanine cards and I/O modules. The iDRAC7 FlexAddress feature
supports preservation of slot specific MAC address for iDRAC7s in a chassis. The chassis–assigned MAC address is
stored in CMC non–volatile memory and is sent to iDRAC7 during an iDRAC7 boot or when CMC FlexAddress is enabled.
If CMC enables chassis–assigned MAC addresses, iDRAC7 displays the MAC address on any of the following pages:
• Overview → Server → Properties Details → iDRAC Information .
• Overview → Server → Properties WWN/MAC.
• Overview → iDRAC Settings → Properties iDRAC Information → Current Network Settings.
• Overview → iDRAC Settings → Network Network → Network Settings .
Dell Chassis Management Controller User Guide available at dell.com/
iDRAC7 Online Help .
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