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Using the Dashboard Health Options
To use the navigation panel to display the current system status of the DR Series system components (or any expansion
shelf enclosure) that are installed, complete the following:
1.
Click Dashboard → Health.
The Health page is displayed.
2.
Mouse over the chassis front and rear panel views on the Health page to display a dialog with the status, name,
and state for the DR Series system disk drives and OS drives.
Use the same process to display a similar dialog with the status and name for the power supplies and rear panel
connectors for an expansion shelf enclosure.
3.
View the status in the System Hardware Health summary table for all of the DR Series system or expansion shelf
components (depending upon the tab selected, System or Enclosure).
To display additional information, click to expand each component in the corresponding summary table.
NOTE: The Health page provides status of the DR Series chassis front and rear views showing the chassis
drives (0-11), the power supplies (PS1 and PS2), and the OS internal drives (12 and 13) for the DR4000 system
(in the DR4100, the OS drives reside in the rear chassis). In addition, all other major DR Series system
components are listed in the System Hardware Health table (Power Supplies, Fans, Temperature, Storage,
Voltage, NIC (network interface card), CPU, DIMM (dual in-line memory module), and NVRAM. For each
installed expansion shelf, the Health page provides status of the expansion shelf chassis front and rear views
showing the chassis drives (0–11) and lists the service tag. The System Hardware Health table for the
enclosure lists the Power Supplies, Fans, Temperature, Storage, and Enclosure Management Module (EMM).
For more information about the system components and the Health page, see Health,
Using the Dashboard Page to Monitor System
Understanding DR Series System NICs And Ports
The DR Series system supports the use of the following types of NICs:
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1-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) two-port (10-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling
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10-GbE two-port (100-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling
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10-GbE SFP+ two-port using LC fiber-optic transceivers or twin-axial cabling
The 1-GbE, 10-GbE, and 10-GbE SFP+ NICs configurations bond multiple Ethernet ports into a single interface by default:
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For the 1-GbE ports, this means that the four ports in the DR4000 system (or the six ports in the DR4100 system) are
bonded together to form one interface connection.
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For the 10-GbE and 10-GbE SFP+ ports, this means that to operate at maximum speed, only the two high-speed
Ethernet ports are bonded together to form one interface connection.
The DR Series system supports configuring the NICs to use either of the following supported bonding configurations:
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ALB—adaptive load balancing (ALB) is the default; this configuration does not require special switch support, but it
does require the data source machine to be on the same subnet as the DR Series system. The ALB is mediated by
the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).
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802.3ad—also known as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is used for copper-wired Ethernet applications;
this configuration does require special switch management (the requirement being that it be managed from the
switch).
For more information, see
Configuring Networking
ALB and the 802.3ad are link aggregation methods that aggregate or combine multiple network connections in parallel to
increase throughput beyond what a single connection could support.
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Settings.
Monitoring System
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