Viewing And Changing Adapter Properties On Linux; Qaucli Utility - Dell QLogic Family of Adapters User Manual

Linux NIC Driver Management Applications: QLogic QME8242 Mezzanine Card User's Guide
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Linux NIC Driver Management Applications: QLogic QME8242
Mezzanine Card User's Guide
The following sections describe how to configure and manage the driver and adapter using Linux management utilities:
Overview

Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties on Linux

Overview
The following sections describe how to configure and manage the driver and adapter using Linux management utilities.
Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties on Linux
Use the following Linux utilities to view and change adapter properties:

qaucli Utility

ethtool Utility
phantomcore Utility
qaucli Utility
Install QConvergeConsole CLI (qaucli) from the following packages supplied by QLogic:
QConvergeConsoleCLI-<version>_linux_<arch>.install.tar.gz—Package file
QConvergeConsoleCLI-<version>_<arch>.rpm—RPM installer package file
Example RPM package installation:
1. To determine if the QCC is installed and to find the full name of the installed QCC RPM package, issue the following
command using the partial name "QConvergeConsoleCLI" as an argument to grep:
rpm –qa | grep QConvergeConsoleCLI
2. To check for an older version of the RPM package, issue the following command:
rpm –qa QConvergeConsoleCLI
3. If an older version is found, erase that version by issuing the following command:
rpm –e QConvergeConsoleCLI
4. To install the new version, issue the following command:
rpm –ihv QConvergeConsoleCLI-1.0.00-04.i386.rpm
The utility is installed in the /opt/QLogic_Corporation/QConvergeConsoleCLI directory.
Some software releases require firmware to be updated in the NIC's Flash memory. See the release notes for your software
package in order to see if this is necessary. If so, use the uCLI tool to flash the card.
The qaucli utility forces uCLI to use the NIC protocol interface to do a Flash update. For example:
.\qaucli -pr nic .updimages [cna_instance] image_file
To have uCLI automatically select a protocol interface to do Flash update, issue the following command:
.\qaucli -nic .updimages [cna_instance] image_file
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