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Remove NIC from HPInsight Monitoring Interface

leoh_1 — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:50:21 GMT

How to disable NIC alarms from showing in HPSIM console in a Linux Server that has no GUI?

See the image of the alarms
http://screencast.com/t/MjQ2NWY5M

Thank you.

Re: Remove NIC from HPInsight Monitoring Interface

Martin Smoral — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:47:25 GMT

This might work. you need to shut down the Nics that have no link.

Ifconfig ! To show nics
Ifconfig vmnic4 down ! To shutdown until next reboot
add this command in the boot script (/etc/rc.local file) because on the next boot it will be up again

Re: Remove NIC from HPInsight Monitoring Interface

leoh_1 — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:13:20 GMT

ifconfig shows just 1 physical NIC. All others are virtual (VM ESX Server). See

On windows I can remove LINK monitoring from HP. I have another monitoring tool to get LINK alarms, so this is useless here in HP. In linux, how can I disable NIC LINK DOWN monitoring?

Thank you.

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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:937280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:937280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1663277228 (1586.2 Mb) TX bytes:1663277228 (1586.2 Mb)

vmnic0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:81:84:E5
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6287501 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3033250675 (2892.7 Mb) TX bytes:11187729 (10.6 Mb)

vmnic1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:55:29:9C:B0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6203987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3006820577 (2867.5 Mb) TX bytes:3814 (3.7 Kb)
Interrupt:113 Memory:f4000000-f4012100

vmnic2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:55:29:9C:B2
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:145 Memory:f2000000-f2012100

vmnic3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:55:29:9C:B4
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6706765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3074438967 (2932.0 Mb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:161 Memory:f8000000-f8012100

vmnic4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:55:29:9C:B6
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:169 Memory:f6000000-f6012100

vmnic5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:81:84:E4
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnic6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:81:84:E7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6814220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3109774319 (2965.7 Mb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnic7 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:81:84:E6
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vswif0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:4E:47:CC
inet addr:10.247.0.159 Bcast:10.247.3.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2453637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:228299234 (217.7 Mb) TX bytes:11165935 (10.6 Mb)

Re: Remove NIC from HPInsight Monitoring Interface

Martin Smoral — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:29:01 GMT

I see 8 Nics Total (VMnic0 - VMnic7). It seems that they are all "up" but many are not being used. 0, 1, 3 and 6 show TX or RX packets. Since VMnic's 2, 4, 5 and 7 show NO TX or RX packets, i assume they are not used/disconnected. You could look at the back of the server and if you have 4 nics that dont have cables attached then those are the ones. I would shut down those with the above command then go back to the home page and see if it cleared up those errors.

Re: Remove NIC from HPInsight Monitoring Interface

leoh_1 — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:28:03 GMT

As I Said, those are Virtual NIC created by VMWare. They don't exist in the back of the server.

I have 4 physical NICs as shown by "lspci" commmand

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Intel PRO/1000 PT Low Profile Quad Port PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
09:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Intel PRO/1000 PT Low Profile Quad Port PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Intel PRO/1000 PT Low Profile Quad Port PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
0a:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Intel PRO/1000 PT Low Profile Quad Port PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)