Installing and Administering HP FDDI/9000 Software

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Conﬁguring HP FDDI/9000

Overview of Conﬁguration Using SAM

These instructions describe how to conﬁgure FDDI on HP-UX version

10.30 or above. To determine the operating system version you are using,

type the following command:

uname -a

Once you have installed FDDI hardware and software, you can use SAM

to automatically conﬁgure networking.

SAM stands for System Administration Manager, a menu-driven utility

for system administration tasks, including conﬁguration of networking

software. SAM has two user interfaces, an X-Windows system interface

and a text terminal interface. The primary components and functionality

of SAM are the same for both interfaces. The differences are the screen

appearance and the navigation methods.

You can get to the SAM online help system using the following methods:

• Choose an item from the “Help” menu (located in the menubar). This

gives you information about the current SAM screen, keyboard

navigation within SAM, using the SAM help system, and displaying

the version of SAM you are currently running.

• Activate the HELP button from a dialog or message box. This gives

you information about the attributes and tasks you can do from the

currently displayed window.

• Press the F1 key. This gives you context-sensitive information for the

object at the location of the cursor.

Using SAM, conﬁguring HP FDDI/9000 can be divided into two

procedures:

• Conﬁguring the FDDI Link.

• Conﬁguring Network Connectivity.

Follow step 1 to add the IP address, any alias names, and, if the FDDI

card is on a subnetwork, the subnet mask for your FDDI card. This

procedure will automatically initialize the FDDI link and attach your

node to the local area network (LAN). Follow step 2 to add remote system

names and remote system IP addresses for network connectivity, and to

specify default gateway information.