16.2.1 Roles
• Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Network administrator
16.2.2 Tasks
The appliance online help provides information about using the UI or the REST APIs to:
• Update the logical interconnect firmware.
• Add an uplink set.
• Create a logical interconnect support dump file.
• Enable and disable physical ports.
• Manage SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) access and trap destinations.
• Reapply the logical interconnect configuration to its physical interconnects.
• Update the logical interconnect configuration from the logical interconnect group.
• Configure a port to monitor network traffic.
• Change Ethernet settings such as:
Fast MAC cache failover◦
◦ MAC refresh interval
◦ IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) snooping
◦ IGMP idle timeout interval
◦ Loop protection
16.2.3 About logical interconnects
A logical interconnect is a single administrative entity that consists of the configuration for the
interconnects in an enclosure, which includes:
• The uplink sets, which connect to data center networks.
• The mapping of networks to physical uplink ports, which is defined by the uplink sets for a
logical interconnect.
• The downlink ports, which connect through the enclosure midplane to the servers in the
enclosure.
• The connections between interconnects, which are called stacking links. Stacking links can be
internal cables (through the enclosure) or external cables between the stacking ports of
interconnects.
For a server administrator, a logical interconnect represents the available networks through the
interconnect uplinks and the interconnect downlink capabilities through a physical server’s interfaces.
For a network administrator, a logical interconnect represents an Ethernet stacking domain,
aggregation layer connectivity, stacking topology, network reachability, statistics, and
troubleshooting tools.
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