Clarification on management NIC's

ghuey · ‎06-20-2011

Forgive my ignorance, but this is my first experience with the Cisco line of servers.

We have a Cisco 210 rack server that is currently in a stand-alone configuration. I am running into some confusion concerning the embedded NICs that come with the server.

Documentation lists:

one 10/100 Management NIC

two 10/100/1000 NICs

Currently I have the CIMC set to dedicated to the lone 10/100 NIC and I was hoping to use one of the other 10/100/1000 NIC's for the OS that will be installed. Problem is that I cannot get the 10/100/1000 NIC to pull an address, while the "management" 10/100 nic pulls an address for CIMC successfully.

Are all three of these cards somehow isolated for "management" purposes? I also stumbled across a post where someone mentioned a bug on the gig NICS where the speed had to be hard set?

rewilkin · ‎06-20-2011

Glenn,

You are correct when you mention that the mgmt nic, which is the cimc, will use the ip that you set when you chose dedicated.

The two ports, 0 and 1 are not tied to the mgmt(cimc)

When inside the cimc configuration page, the nic type, you will want to choose is none. Reboot the server, then hit the cimc web page and finish configuration from there.

Let me know if this does not answer your question.

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ghuey · ‎06-21-2011

Thanks for the assistance Reginald.

Unfortunately I don't see a setting for NIC "type" although you could be referring to NIC redundancy possibly?

I have NIC mode set to Dedicated

I have NIC redundancy set to None

The 10/100/1000 NIC will not pull ip. Tempted to try the second one, but it is a remote site that I will have to schedule time for.

ghuey · ‎06-22-2011

Due to time constraints I decided to see how this would work on a second Cisco server so I provisioned it in our lab and it worked exactly as expected. BIOS/CMIC settings were identicle between the two.

Appears I have an issue with my first server.

rewilkin · ‎06-22-2011

Sounds like it. I am sure if it is covered, TAC can help you out.

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