Introduction; Features - Chelsio T5 Installation And User Manual

Chapter V. Unified Wire Manager (UM)

1. Introduction

Chelsio's Unified Wire Manager is a powerful management software tool, allowing you to view
and configure different aspects of the system, including Chelsio hardware installed in the
system. The software includes a command line interface (CLI) tool and a web management
interface (Web GUI) to help you manage all Chelsio network adapter cards on the network
across multiple operating systems.
Unified Wire Manager enables the management of all aspects of the client side of the iSCSI
SAN in two main areas. The ability to configure Chelsio adapter's boot option ROM without
entering each individual adapter's configuration screen and manage group of iSCSI initiators
remotely from a common user interface saves administrator's time considerably. Unified Wire
Manager fully supports Microsoft iSCSI initiator. All supported Chelsio FCoE initiators available
on Linux can be managed.
Users can manage Option ROM (PXE and FCoE) capability for Chelsio cards using various
tools available in the software.
Additionally, Unified Wire Manager allows for Chelsio adapter NIC and TOE parameters to be
centrally managed through the same easy-to-use user interface. It can bring interfaces up or
down, tune parameters for optimal performance, and any number of administrative tasks
normally done at each individual machine.
Chelsio's Unified Wire Manager is an indispensable tool for saving administrator's time for
managing the network and SAN. Chelsio's high performance network adapters with its Unified
Wire approach to networking can now be managed centrally in a simple and fast way!
1.1.

Features

Chelsio's Unified Wire Manager is designed to provide the following features to the end-user:
Remotely manage Chelsio adapters and various related tasks like driver installation from a
single application.
Single tool with CLI and Web interface that works across Storage, Networking and
Hardware.
Manage all Chelsio adapters installed on the system.
Tool for FAE to debug issues on the Customer front.
Freedom to choose various modes of management i.e. CLI or Web GUI.
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