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

Setting Up and Administering an HP-UX NFS Diskless Cluster
Setting Up the Cluster Server
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This is the address you obtained in “Getting the Hardware (Station)
Address” on page 909. SAM provides a portion of this address
because all LAN cards supplied by HP have an address that begins
with 080009. You will have to type in the last six hexadecimal digits.
Hexadecimal letters can be upper or lower case.
•“Net/Subnet Mask”
This is the mask used to specify how much of the IP address to
reserve for subdividing networks into subnetworks. SAM will provide
a default based on your server’s network configuration. If you need to
change the value supplied by SAM, backspace over the value and
type in the new value.
If the client is on the same LAN as the server, the Net/Subnet mask
must match the mask used on the server for that LAN interface. If
the client is separated from the server by a gateway, the Net/Subnet
mask must be consistent with the mask used by other systems on the
network that the client is attached to.
To see some other choices for the mask value, select the “Net/Subnet
Mask” button.
•“Default Route”
By default, SAM fills in the IP address of the client.
To see some other choices for the default route, select the “Default
Route” button.
•“OS Shared Root”
SAM will display a shared root as the default. This will normally be
the /export/shared_root/OS_700 shared root (assuming your
server is a Series 700 and you have not created any other shared
roots, or if your server is a Series 800 and you installed the Series
700 version of HP-UX in /export/shared_roots/OS_700).
If you have created other shared roots that contain HP-UX, you can
select the “OS Shared Root” button and SAM will display all the OS
shared roots in /export/shared_roots.
Step 6. If you are defining many clients at once, select “APPLY”. Then, repeat the
above steps for any other clients. It is usually faster overall and more
convenient to define a set of clients and install them all at once rather
than to install them one at a time.