PCI FDDI Administrator's Guide

PCI FDDI

System Administration Manager (SAM)

Chapter 134

System Administration Manager (SAM)

SAM is a menu-driven utility for system administration tasks, including

conﬁguration of software.

The following instructions describe how to conﬁgure the PCI FDDI

adapter on HP-UX. To determine the operating system version you are

using, type the following command: uname -a

Once you have installed the PCI FDDI adapter and software, you can use

SAM to automatically conﬁgure networking.

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 navigation methods.

Using the SAM Online Help System:

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

Conﬁguring the PCI FDDI adapter can be divided into three

procedures:

1. Conﬁguring the FDDI link and speciﬁc parameters supported on

HP-UX 11i only:

— MAC address

— MTU

— T_Req

— T_Notify

2. Conﬁguring IP address and subnet mask on the PCI FDDI link for

HP-UX 10.20 and 11.x.