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Clustered Data ONTAP® 8.2
Network Management Guide
Understanding the network configuration
Networking components of a cluster
Network cabling guidelines
Network configuration during setup (cluster administrators only)
Network configuration after setup
Configuring network ports (cluster administrators only)
Types of network ports
Network port naming conventions
Roles for network ports
Default Ethernet port roles by platform
Combining physical ports to create interface groups
What interface groups are
Types of interface groups
Single-mode interface group
Static multimode interface group
Dynamic multimode interface group
Load balancing in multimode interface groups
IP address and MAC address load balancing
Round-robin load balancing
Port-based load balancing
Restrictions on interface groups
Creating an interface group
Adding or removing a port from an interface group
Deleting an interface group
Configuring VLANs over physical ports
How VLANs work
How switches identify different VLANs
Advantages of VLANs
How to use VLANs for tagged and untagged network traffic
Creating a VLAN
Deleting a VLAN
Modifying network port attributes
Removing a NIC from the node
Configuring IPv6 addresses
Supported and unsupported features of IPv6
Enabling IPv6 on the cluster
Configuring LIFs (cluster administrators only)
What LIFs are
Roles for LIFs
Characteristics of LIFs
LIF limits
Guidelines for creating LIFs
Guidelines for creating LIFs with IPv6 addresses
Creating a LIF
Modifying a LIF
Migrating a LIF
Reverting a LIF to its home port
Deleting a LIF
Configuring failover groups for LIFs (cluster administrators only)
Scenarios that cause a LIF failover
Types of failover groups
Relation between LIF roles and failover groups
Creating or adding a port to a failover group
Renaming a failover group
Removing a port from or deleting a failover group
Enabling or disabling failover of a LIF
Managing routing in a Vserver (cluster administrators only)
Creating a routing group
Deleting a routing group
Creating a route within a routing group
Deleting a static route
Configuring host-name resolution
Host-name resolution for the admin Vserver
Host-name resolution for a Vserver
Managing the hosts table (cluster administrators only)
Commands for managing DNS host name entries
Managing DNS domains for host-name resolution
Commands for managing DNS domain configurations
Balancing network loads to optimize user traffic (cluster administrators only)
Load balancing types
Guidelines for assigning load balancing weights
Assigning a load balancing weight to a LIF
How DNS load balancing works
Creating a DNS load balancing zone
Adding or removing a LIF from a load balancing zone
How automatic LIF rebalancing works
Enabling or disabling automatic LIF rebalancing
Combining load balancing methods in a Vserver accessible in a multiprotocol environment
Managing SNMP on the cluster (cluster administrators only)
What MIBs are
Creating an SNMP community
Configuring SNMPv3 users in a cluster
SNMPv3 security parameters
Examples for different security levels
SNMP traps
Configuring traphosts
Commands for managing SNMP
Viewing network information
Displaying network port information (cluster administrators only)
Displaying information about a VLAN (cluster administrators only)
Displaying interface group information (cluster administrators only)
Displaying LIF information
Displaying routing information
Displaying host name entries (cluster administrators only)
Displaying DNS domain configurations
Displaying information about failover groups (cluster administrators only)
Viewing failover targets of LIFs
Viewing LIFs in a load balancing zone
Displaying cluster connections
Displaying active connections by client (cluster administrators only)
Displaying active connections by protocol (cluster administrators only)
Displaying active connections by service (cluster administrators only)
Displaying active connections by LIF on a node and Vserver
Displaying active connections in a cluster
Displaying listening connections in a cluster
Commands for diagnosing network problems
Using CDP to detect network connectivity
Considerations for using CDP
Enabling or disabling CDP
Configuring hold time for CDP messages
Setting the intervals for sending CDP advertisements
Viewing or clearing CDP statistics
Viewing neighbor information by using CDP
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