HP hp proliant blade workstation xw460c blade workstation Manual De Usuario

ISS Technology Update                                                                 Volume 6, Number 9 

 

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and continue to provide backward compatibility, although it is expected that almost all future discrete I/O devices, regardless 

of their bandwidth requirements, will be developed to the PCIe standard.  
HP has been a leader in the development and implementation of industry-standard I/O technology and continues to be a core 

member of the PCI Special Interest Group. HP is committed to delivering industry-leading products that meet customer 

requirements for flexibility, performance, and investment protection.  

Port monitoring in Virtual Connect for the c-Class BladeSystem 

The ability to monitor Ethernet settings (port monitoring) is available in a free Virtual Connect (VC) firmware update. This feature 

is available to users with server and network administrator privileges. All other users will have read-only access. To use port 
monitoring, all modules within the domain must be using Virtual Connect Manager 1.20a

 or higher. 

There are two steps to monitoring an Ethernet port.   
1.  Configure Virtual Connect to mirror to the desired server NIC traffic to an “analyzer” port (available in 1.20a and higher) 
2.  Connect a network sniffer or analyzer to the analyzer port 

Port monitoring allows an administrator to duplicate the network traffic over a set of server ports and send it to an unused uplink 

port for the purpose of monitoring or debugging network traffic. 

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Any unused port on a VC-Ethernet module can be specified as the port monitoring port (one per enclosure). 

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Any server Network Interface card’s ingress or egress (or both) traffic can be mirrored to that port. 

Administrators can access port monitoring through the Virtual Connect Manager over the same Ethernet connection used to 

access the HP Onboard Administrator and iLO connections (Figure 3-1).   

 

Figure 3-1. Virtual Connect Manager screen for Ethernet settings 

 

 

                                                 

 

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 Version 1.20a is available for download from 

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