HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide for HP-UX 11i v1 and 11i v2 September 2008

2 Installing the APA Software
This chapter describes the information required in order to install APA on your system.
Installation Requirements
1. Log in to the HP-UX server as superuser.
2. Confirm that the /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin directories are in your PATH by using
the echo $PATH command.
3. Use the uname -a command to determine the HP-UX version of your system.
4. Install the required patches for your system as described in the “Required Patches” section
of the release notes.
Hardware Requirements
Supported Switches
HP APA supports the Cisco FastEtherChannel (PAgP) protocol, the Link Aggregation Control
Protocol (LACP) (IEEE 802.3ad), and manual trunking mechanisms. HP has tested switches from
the following vendors to work with HP APA:
• 3Com
• Cisco
• HP Procurve
• Foundry
• Alteon
• Nortel
• Extreme
With the September 2007 release of HP APA for HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.11.30 and
B.11.23.30, respectively), HP APA also supports Nortel's Split Multi-Link Trunking (SMLT)
technology. Specifically, HP has tested the Passport 8006 and Passport 8010 switches with the
version 3.7.13.0 of the software.
Supported LAN Cards
The following network interface cards are supported for HP-UX 11.0 and 11i v1:
• All HP HP-PB, HSC, and PCI 10/100Base cards (both FX and TX)
• All HP HSC and PCI 1000Base cards (both Base-T and SX)
• HP-PB and PCI Token Ring (failover groups only)
• HP-PB and PCI FDDI (failover groups only)
The following network interface cards are supported for HP-UX 11i v2:
• All HP PCI 10/100Base cards (both FX and TX)
NOTE: HP APA does not support the 10/100 BT Standard/Management LAN interface
found on some systems and controlled by the intl100 driver, and any other devices
controlled by the intl100 driver.
• All HP PCI 1000Base cards (both Base-T and SX)
• PCI-X 10 GbE Fiber cards (failover groups only)
• All HP PCI-X 2-port Combination cards (network ports only)
• PCI Token Ring (failover groups only)
• PCI FDDI (failover groups only)
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