Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 428)

OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface Version 10.2 User Manual P010067-01A Rev. A
5. CLI Client Command Descriptions
Profile Management Commands
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Note:(pN) labels are the port parameter names to use in the
SetAdapterPortConfig command (e.g. p0=NIC,FCoE p1=NIC,iSCSI).
Setting Multichannel Bandwidths
See “CMSetBW” on page 345 for more information.
Dell NPar Configurations
Note: ARI must be available to support sixteen functions on an adapter.
OCe14000-series adapters automatically support ARI. However, the system’s
motherboard must support ARI, it must be enabled in the system BIOS, and the
operating system must support ARI. If these conditions are not met, although
you will be required to configure all sixteen functions, only eight functions will
be present and discovered by the OneCommand Manager application after a
reboot.
Enabling and Disabling NPar
To enable NPar, set the "mctype" parameter in the SetAdapterPortConfig command to
“NPar”. When enabling NPar, the additional function protocols must be specified for
the extra channels or they will be set to “None”; meaning that there is no protocol
running on the function. Disable NPar by setting “mctype” to “None”.
Notes:
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The existing CMMode command, used to enable or disable multichannel for
OCe11100-series adapters, cannot be used to enable or disable NPar. Using the
CMMMode command to enable or disable NPar displays an error message
indicating that the command is not supported by the firmware or hardware.
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When NPar is disabled, NParEP Mode is automatically disabled as well. It is not
necessary to specify the nparepmode= parameter on the command line when
disabling NPar (mctype=none), and an error is generated if you attempt to do
so.
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After enabling NPar with the SetAdapterPortConfig command, default
bandwidths will be automatically assigned to each partition with an assigned
protocol. See “Default NPar Bandwidths” on page 435 for more information.
Showing NPar Configuration
Both the GetAdatperPortConfig command and the CMGetParams command show
different aspects of the NPar configuration.
Showing NPar Configuration Using GetAdapterPortConfig
The GetAdatperPortConfig command displays all of the adapter's ports and the
functions running on each port. It also shows the state of NParEP Mode. See
“GetAdapterPortConfig” on page 415 for more information.