Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Setting Up and Administering an HP-UX NFS Diskless Cluster
Obtaining Information About Your Server and Client
Chapter 10908
Obtaining Information About Your Server and
Client
To set up and administer an NFS diskless cluster, you need to obtain
information about the computers that will be in the cluster. Specifically,
you will need the following for the cluster server and each cluster client:
• Host Name
This is the string returned by the hostname command, or simply the
identifier applied by your site’s network administrator to a new
system. (This identifier must be no more than eight characters in
length.) If the system is already registered with your site’s name
service with DNS (Domain Name Server), NIS, or an entry in your
server’s /etc/hosts file, SAM will automatically expand the host
name into its “fully-qualified” form. This form includes additional
information related to the system’s assigned location on the Internet.
See Installing and Administering Internet Services for further
information.
• Internet Protocol (IP) address
This is a string in the form:
n . n . n . n
where n is a decimal number between 0 and 255 inclusive. This
address will be assigned by your site’s network administrator. For
details, refer to Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software.
• LAN card hardware address (station address)
This is a hexadecimal number in the form:
080009 hhhhhh
where hhhhhh is unique to your computer’s built-in LAN connection
or to each of its LAN cards. For details, see “Getting the Hardware
(Station) Address” on page 909.