MIB (Management Information Base) into the management application's database. This allows the
management application to recognize and support the adapter.
Installing the SNMP Agent on Microsoft* Windows* Operating Systems
This utility should only be employed by experienced network administrators. Additional software/services
must be installed on your network prior to installing the Intel® SNMP Agent.
To install the SNMP Agent, start the autorun menu from the Product CD or download directory and click
Install Drivers and Software
. Follow the instructions on the screen.
IP Security Offloading
Internet Protocol (IP) Security (IPSec) is a set of protocols used to help secure the exchange of IP data. IP
Security offloading is the assignment of algorithm computations from software to hardware. Generally, CPU
utilization decreases and network performance increases when offloading takes place.
On Intel devices that support IPSec offloading features, you can configure those features through Intel®
PROSet. For more information, select Intel PROSet in the Table of Contents (left pane) of this window.
NOTE:
Large Send Offload (LSO) and IPSec Offload are not compatible. LSO is automatically
disabled when IPSec Offload is enabled. This may reduce the performance of non-IPSec traffic.
Confining all of your IPSec traffic to one port and enabling IPSec Offload only on that port may
mitigate this issue. On Microsoft Windows 8/Server 2012 and later, devices based on the 82576,
82599, and X540 controllers are not affected by this issue.
IPMI Manageability
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) allows you to monitor server physical health
characteristics, such as temperature, voltage, fans, power supplies, and chassis intrusion. These monitoring
capabilities provide information that enables system management, recovery and asset tracking.
IPMI and Adapter Teaming
If an adapter is TCO-enabled and connected to a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), you can add it to
any type of iANS team. However, if you add it to a Static Link Aggregation (SLA) or an IEEE 802.3ad
Dynamic Link Aggregation Team the system management capabilities will be non-functional. This is due to
load balancing requirements within a team and the fact that manageability traffic is restricted to a single port
on a specific adapter. Also, if the adapter is connected to a BMC device that does not use a dedicated MAC
address, Receive Load balancing and Adaptive Load Balancing teams will lose manageability traffic like SLA
and Dynamic Link Aggregation Teams mentioned above.
IPMI and VLANs
If you are using an 82541 or 82547-based network connection and plan to configure a VLAN dedicated to IPMI
manageability traffic, you must configure the IPMI-enabled port of the system and the BMC to use the same
VLAN ID. If the port will pass only non-manageability traffic, you do not need to configure a VLAN on the
BMC.
