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Oracle® ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Guide, Release OS8.7.x

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Updated: November 2018
 
 

Network Configuration (BUI)

When using the BUI to reconfigure networking, the system makes every effort to preserve the current networking connection to your browser. However, some network configuration changes such as deleting the specific address to which your browser is connected, will unavoidably cause the browser to lose its connection. For this reason it is recommended that you assign a particular IP address and network device for use by administrators and always leave the address configured. You can also perform particularly complex network reconfiguration tasks from the CLI over the serial console if necessary.

The following icons are used in the Configuration > Network section:

Table 15  Network Configuration Icons
Icon
Description
image:Image showing the add icon
Add new datalink, interface, or route
image:Image showing the edit icon
Edit datalink, interface, or route settings
image:Image showing the disabled edit icon
Editing disabled
image:Image showing the destroy icon
Destroy datalink, interface, route
image:Image showing the disabled destroy icon
Destruction disabled
image:Image showing the move icon
Drag-and-drop icon
image:Image showing the active network device (lights                                             off) icon
Connected network port
image:Image showing the active network device                                             icon
Connected network port with I/O activity
image:Image showing the disabled network device                                             icon
Disconnected network port (link down, cable problem)
image:Image showing the active InfiniBand port                                             icon
Active InfiniBand port
image:Image showing the active InfiniBand port with I/O                                             activity icon
Active InfiniBand port with I/O activity
image:Image showing the inactive InfiniBand port                                             icon
Inactive InfiniBand port (down, init, or arm state)
image:Image showing the status on icon
InfiniBand partition device is up
image:Image showing the status off icon
InfiniBand partition device is down (subnet manager problem)
image:Image showing the network datalink icon
Network datalink
image:Image showing the VLAN network datalink                                             icon
Network datalink VLAN or VNIC
image:Image showing the network datalink aggregation                                             icon
Network datalink aggregation
image:Image showing the VLAN network datalink aggregation                                             icon
Network datalink aggregation VLAN or VNIC
image:Image showing the InfiniBand network datalink                                             icon
Network datalink IB partition
image:Image showing the status on icon
Interface is being used to send and receive packets (either up or degraded)
image:Image showing the disabled status icon
Interface has been disabled by the user
image:Image showing the status off icon
Interface is offline (owned by the cluster peer)
image:Image showing the status warning icon
Interface has failed or has been configured with a duplicate IP address

At top right is local navigation for Configuration, Addresses and Routing, which display alternate configuration views.

The Configuration page is shown by default, and lists Devices, Datalinks, and Interfaces, along with buttons for administration. Hover over an entry to expose an additional image:Image showing the move icon icon, and click on any entry to highlight other components that are associated with it.

The Devices list shows links status on the right, as well as an icon to reflect the state of the network port. If ports appear disconnected, check that they are plugged into the network properly.

To configure an IP address on a network devices, first create a datalink, and then create an interface to use that datalink. The image:Image showing the add icon icon may be used to do both, which will display dialogs for the Datalink and Interface properties.

There is more than one way to configure a network interface. Try clicking on the move icon image:Image showing the move icon for a device, then dragging it to the datalink table. Then drag the datalink over to the interfaces table. Other moves are possible. This can be helpful for complex configurations, where valid moves are highlighted.

This page shows a summary table of the current network configuration, with fields:

Table 16  Summary of the Current Network Configuration
Field
Description
Example
Network Datalink
Datalink name and detail summary
datalink1 (via igb0)
Network Interface
Interface name and details summary
IPv4 DHCP, via datalink1
Network Addresses
Addresses hosted by this interface
192.168.2.80/22
Host Names
Resolved host names for the network addresses
caji.sf.example.com

This page provides configuration of the IP routing table and associated properties, as discussed above. By default, all entries in the routing table are shown, but the table can be filtered by type by using the subnavigation bar.

To check a specific route, in the CLI use traceroute.

zfssa-source:> traceroute 10.80.198.102
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 10.80.198.101 @ igb3
traceroute to 10.80.198.102 (10.80.198.102), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 
1 10.80.198.1 (10.80.198.1) 6.490 ms 0.924 ms 0.834 ms 
2 10.80.198.102 (10.80.198.102) 0.152 ms 0.118 ms 0.099 ms
zfssa-target:> traceroute 10.80.198.101
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 10.80.198.102 @ igb3
traceroute to 10.80.198.101 (10.80.198.101), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 
1 10.80.198.1 (10.80.198.1) 1.031 ms 0.905 ms 0.769 ms
2 10.80.198.101 (10.80.198.101) 0.158 ms 0.111 ms 0.109 ms