Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals

Appendix A 245
EISA Board Configuration
Configuring E/ISA Boards Using Interactive Mode
Creating Identical E/ISA Configurations on Other
Workstations
If you have several workstations with identical E/ISA boards, you can
streamline the configuration task as follows:
Step 1. Invoke /sbin/eisa_config on the first system and configure the E/ISA
boards to your satisfaction.
Step 2. Save the configuration in a system.sci file instead of to NVM.
EISA: save system.sci
Step 3. Complete the configuration task for the first workstation, by exiting
eisa_config, making any necessary physical changes to the boards, and
rebooting the system.
Step 4. When you are ready to configure other workstations, copy the CFG and
system.sci files from the first workstation to those systems. (Note, if
the workstations share a file system, you might not need to copy the files
at all.)
On each of the other workstations, invoke eisa_config using the -n
option, which initializes the E/ISA configuration from system.sci.
eisa_config -n system.sci
Step 5. Save the new E/ISA configuration using the save command.
By default, eisa_config records the configuration in the NVM and to
/etc/eisa/system.sci. Optionally, if you specify a file (for example,
tmp.sci) as an argument to the save command, eisa_config records
the configuration to the specified file.
EISA: save [tmp.sci]
Successfully saved configuration in tmp.sci.
You can copy the tmp.sci file to the systems for which you are
duplicating the original configuration. Then, from eisa_config on the
new system, use the init command to write the configuration to NVM
and /etc/eisa/system.sci of the new system.
Step 6. Complete the configuration task by exiting eisa_config, making any
necessary physical changes to the boards, and rebooting the system.