HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 58)

After setting the Ignore status on the components, the change will not be reflected until after the
next status polling task runs.
Disabling NIC on ESXi host
The network status reports as “major/minor” for any unused or disconnected NIC on the ESXi host.
To exclude health status of unused or disconnected NICS while calculating health status of network
component on the ESXi host, use the following tool.
Use Exclude ESXi Host(s) NIC Port(s) status from WBEM Health Status tool to disable MAC Address
of unused NIC ports from the UI on the ESXi host.
Figure 1
By doing this, disabled MAC Address is not considered for calculating the health status and status
of network component is reported as “Normal”. The tool displays the MAC addresses of NICs
excluded from the Health Status Polling.
Figure 2
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