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Monitors the configured NIC. If a network link fails, or if a problem arises with the NIC, the resource is marked faulted.
Monitors the configured NIC. If a network link fails, or if a problem arises with the NIC, the resource is marked offline (in HP-UX and Solaris it is marked faulted).
Linux: Some NICs maintain their connection status in a hardware register. For NICs that maintain their connection status, the agent uses MII to determine the status of the NIC resource. For NICs that do not maintain their connection status, the agent uses a ping or a broadcast to determine the status of the resource.