Chapter 2: Managing Network Configuration; Network Configuration Overview; Single Point Of Management - Dell S5000 Series Getting Started Manual

NOTE: Please read the Multilingual Safety Notices Guide before you perform the procedures described in this document.

Network configuration overview

Network access for the primary server module is either configured by DHCP or using a static IP address.
The network configuration depends on the network settings of the secondary server modules. The following configurations are
possible:
Table 1. Possible network configurations
Network Primary
configuration
LAN cable
Single point of Connected
management
Partitioning Connected
Static IP Connected
See the SHC Reference Guide for more information.

Single point of management

Table 2. Single point of management settings
Server module
Primary
Secondary
Network traffic for the secondary server module:
● Outgoing traffic: through primary server module
● Incoming traffic: through primary server module
New ports are opened for incoming traffic for all server modules in a partition. New ports are numbered as shown below:
new-port-number = 1000 x (40 + module_id)) + port-number
Table 3. Network traffic ports
Port numbers Module ID
0
http 80 40080
https 443 40443
ipmi 623 40623
gdbserver 2159 42159
Managing Network Configuration
Network access
DHCP or static IP
DHCP or static IP
DHCP or static IP
LAN cable
Connected
Not connected
1
41080
41443
41623
43159
Secondary
LAN cable
Not connected
Connected
Connected
Network access
DHCP or Static IP
DHCP
2 3
42080 43080
42443 43443
42623 43623
44159 45159
Managing Network Configuration
2
Network access
DHCP
DHCP
Static IP
...15
55080
55443
55623
57159
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