Server network interface not working properly

Question

I recently bought a ZT Openrack server from eBay (the seller mentioned it was a OCP server) planning to use it as a simple file server, and it arrived a few weeks ago. However, it appeared to not connect to the internet, and upon further inspection, the interface was not working.

A few things that I should mention first:

It has one SFP+ 10GB connection, and an Ethernet connection
Both the SFP+ and the Ethernet are plugged into a Netgear GS724T switch. The switch works perfectly fine with other computers.
When the SFP+ is connected, the light next to the port does not light up (possibly indicating a problem with either the cable or the port)
When the Ethernet is connected, the green light lights up but there still is no signal.
This problem seems to continue throughout the several operating systems I've tried to install.

Here are the operating systems I've installed on the server:

Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop - What it's currently running
Ubuntu 20.04 Server
TrueNAS Core
Windows 10 Home Edition
ProxMox Virtual Environment

I've also looked through all of the BIOS settings on the server to no avail.

The outputs of the commands I've tried are below.

ip link show

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp132s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:8c:fa:cf:8c:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Setting the interface to up via ip link set enp132s0 up yields these results:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp132s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:8c:fa:cf:8c:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

But it still doesn't work.

lspci | grep Network

84:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 10 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

nmcli device show

GENERAL.DEVICE:                         enp132s0
GENERAL.TYPE:                           ethernet
GENERAL.HWADDR:                         00:8C:FA:CF:8C:90
GENERAL.MTU:                            1500
GENERAL.STATE:                          10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.CONNECTION:                     --
GENERAL.CON-PATH:                       --
WIRED-PROPERTIES.CARRIER:               off
IP4.GATEWAY:                            --
IP6.GATEWAY:                            --

GENERAL.DEVICE:                         lo
GENERAL.TYPE:                           loopback
GENERAL.HWADDR:                         00:00:00:00:00:00
GENERAL.MTU:                            65536
GENERAL.STATE:                          10 (unmanaged)
GENERAL.CONNECTION:                     --
GENERAL.CON-PATH:                       --
IP4.ADDRESS[1]:                         127.0.0.1/8
IP4.GATEWAY:                            --
IP6.ADDRESS[1]:                         ::1/128
IP6.GATEWAY:                            --
IP6.ROUTE[1]:                           dst = ::1/128, nh = ::, mt = 256

nmcli connection show

NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE 
Wired connection 1  54ead445-75b8-33eb-b656-2520246f6851  ethernet  --

Restarting the NetworkManager service with sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager and sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager && sudo systemctl start NetworkManager does absolutely nothing.

I cannot download or install packages easily unless I put all of the dependencies on a flash drive and manually install them with dpkg.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Server network interface not working properly

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