CIMC - Network port status

[CoDeC]

hi,

I have tried to find a way to check the status of the network card ports, but I haven't found how. Is it possible to know the status of a network card port (if a cable is connected)?

thanks.

[liviu.gheorghe · Accepted solution]

Hello @CoDeC ,

I'm afraid you cannot see if a certain port of a network adapter has link or not. You can see the network adapters installed in your system by going to Inventory > Network Adapters, but no link status information.

HTH

[CoDeC]

That's what I feared. Thank you for your response.

[liviu.gheorghe]

I don't know if this helps, but try the next best thing - look at the switch in which the server ports are connected. If you don't know the ports that connects the different interfaces of the server, you can extract the MAC addresses of the interfaces from CIMC and on the switch issue the command:

show mac address-table | include <MAC address of interface>

HTH

[Kirk J]

It depends on what 'network card' you are referring to.

If you have a MLOM/VIC card then  you can see the link state:

If you have an add in card like a 4 port Intel 1Gb port card, then those don't provide any out of band management to report that information over to the CIMC GUI.

You would need to run commands inside the booted OS on the overall server like ethtool or similar that would show the connected status, transceiver info, etc.

Kirk...