HP Fabric Clustering System HP-UX Administrator's Guide, March 2008

What’s in This Document
Chapter 1 Introduction to Technology provides a brief and high-level overview of the
HP Fabric for InfiniBand™ clustering system, the HP Fabric Clustering System
architecture.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview provides detailed information on the adapter, switch and
cable hardware components of the HP Fabric Clustering System.
Chapter 3 Installation Planning contains installation information for HP Fabric, including;
Overview of the HP Fabric Clustering System Product, Planning the Fabric,
and IPoIB.
Chapter 4 Installing HP Fabric Clustering System provides the installation procedure
for the HP Fabric Clustering System, and installs the Switch, Host Channel
Adapter (HCA), cables, cable guide, and gets the system up and running.
Chapter 5 Administration and Management discusses the administration and management
of your HP Fabric Clustering System.
Chapter 6 Monitoring and Troubleshooting discusses monitoring and troubleshooting
your HP Fabric Clustering System.
Appendix A Specifications details the HP 24-port 4x Fabric Copper Switch Commands
specifications.
Appendix B HP 24-port 4x Fabric Copper Switch Commands details some of the commands
available to manage the switch.
Appendix C How to Use Windows HyperTerminal provides information to allow you to
remotely administer and manage your HP Fabric Clustering System Copper
Switch from a Windows system.
Typographical Conventions
This document uses the following conventions.
audit(5) An HP-UX manpage. In this example, audit is the name and 5 is the section in
the HP-UX Reference. On the web and on the Instant Information CD, it may
be a hot link to the manpage itself. From the HP-UX command line, you can
enter “man audit” or “man 5 audit” to view the manpage. See man(1).
Book Title The title of a book. On the web and on the Instant Information CD, it may be
a hot link to the book itself.
KeyCap The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the
same key.
Emphasis Text that is emphasized.
Bold Text that is strongly emphasized.
Bold The defined use of an important word or phrase.
ComputerOut
Text displayed by the computer.
UserInput
Commands and other text that you enter.
Command
A command name or qualified command phrase.
Variable
The name of a variable that you may replace in a command or function or
information in a display that represents several possible values.
[ ] The contents are optional in formats and command descriptions. If the contents
are a list separated by |, you must choose one of the items.
{ } The contents are required in formats and command descriptions. If the contents
are a list separated by |, you must choose one of the items.
... The preceding element may be repeated an arbitrary number of times.
| Separates items in a list of choices.
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