Special Considerations for Sideband Management

When sideband management is enabled in ILOM, the following conditions might occur:

• In-chip connectivity between the SP and the host operating system might not be supported by the on-board host GigabitEthernet controller. If this condition occurs, use a different port or route to transmit traffic between the source and destination targets instead of using L2 bridging.

• Server host power cycles might cause a brief interruption of network connectivity for server Gigabit Ethernet ports (NET 0, 1) that are configured for sideband management. You should configure the adjacent switch or bridge ports as host ports. Note that if the ports are configured as switch ports and participate in the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), you might experience longer outages due to spanning tree recalculation.