{"id":1446,"date":"2017-10-21T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2017-10-29T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T13:25:05","slug":"flash-nic-light-on-suse-linux-teradata-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Flash NIC Light on SUSE Linux \u2013 Teradata Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: I needed to know the ethernet device name of an unused port on a NIC (<span class=\"st\">network interface card<\/span>) on my Teradata server.\u00a0 Using the &#8220;ethertool&#8221; utility, I was able to make the light flash on the NIC&#8217;s ethernet port, which confirmed the physical port on the NIC to the internal ethernet device of the SUSE Linux operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Images shown are from Teradata Express, and not an actual Teradata server.<\/p>\n<p>First I need a list of ethernet devices and there status.<\/p>\n<pre> ip link show<\/pre>\n<div id=\"attachment_1447\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IP_Link_Show.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-image-1447 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IP_Link_Show.jpg\" alt=\"IP Link Show\" width=\"708\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">List is normally longer on an actual SUSE Linux server.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next the command that makes the ethernet port light flash for a number of seconds.\u00a0 In the example below I was able to make the light flash on the physical port for 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<pre>ethtool -p &lt;ethernet device&gt; &lt;number of second to flash&gt;<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ethtool_Utility.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1463 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ethtool_Utility.jpg\" alt=\"Ethtool_Utility\" width=\"733\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ethtool_Utility.jpg 733w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ethtool_Utility-300x65.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ethtool_Utility-210x46.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: I needed to know the ethernet device name of an unused port on a NIC (network interface card) on my Teradata server.\u00a0 Using the &#8220;ethertool&#8221; utility, I was able &hellip; <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=1446\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,54],"tags":[108,106],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-teradata","tag-ethtool","tag-suse-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}