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JP1 Version 12 JP1/Network Node Manager i Setup Guide


6.3.4 Discovering server-to-switch link aggregation (S2SLA)

Link aggregation requires an NNMi Advanced license.

Network administrators often need additional reliability and better resource usage between servers and switches. Many network administrators choose to use the Link Aggregation Configuration Protocol (LACP) because of its widespread use by network equipment providers. LACP is negotiated automatically after the IT engineer has bonded the ports on both sides of the server-to-switch configuration.

Network administrators often choose to use one of two types of switch-to-server connections to achieve the reliability and resource usage between servers and switches that they need:

NNMi provides a Discovering Server-to-Switch Link Aggregations (S2SLA) feature to help you manage switch-to-server connections. To ensure that NNMi can properly discover S2SLA information for a node, complete the following tasks:

To view the original MAC addresses, use the following command:

cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0