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

What Happens During Start Up?..........................................................................................................48
4 Using the lanadmin Command..................................................................................51
Set Options............................................................................................................................................52
Display Options....................................................................................................................................54
Invoking lanadmin from the Command Line.......................................................................................57
Using lanadmin Interactively...............................................................................................................59
5 Administering HP APA.................................................................................................63
Modifying HP APA Global Parameters................................................................................................63
Logging Messages to the syslog.log File...............................................................................................63
Examples..........................................................................................................................................64
Viewing HP APA Statistics...................................................................................................................65
6 Troubleshooting HP APA.............................................................................................67
Operation..............................................................................................................................................67
Getting Started......................................................................................................................................67
Solving HP APA Problems...................................................................................................................67
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (MANUAL Mode)....................................................................70
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (LACP Mode)...........................................................................74
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (FEC Mode)..............................................................................79
Solving Failover Group Problems...................................................................................................83
Troubleshooting Tools Overview and Usage........................................................................................88
Testing Access to Internet Network Hosts......................................................................................89
Scanning the System Hardware......................................................................................................89
nettl Tracing and Logging Tool.............................................................................................................90
Reporting Problems .............................................................................................................................92
Gathering Information.....................................................................................................................92
A Product Specifications.................................................................................................95
B HP APA Configuration Files.........................................................................................97
hp_apaconf File.....................................................................................................................................97
hp_apaportconf File..............................................................................................................................99
lanconfig.ascii File...............................................................................................................................100
lanconfig File.......................................................................................................................................103
C Configuring HP APA by Editing Files......................................................................105
Editing Configuration Files for Link Aggregates...............................................................................105
Editing Files for MANUAL, FEC_AUTO, or LACP_AUTO Mode...............................................105
MANUAL Port Configuration Mode.......................................................................................105
FEC_AUTO Port Configuration Mode.....................................................................................106
LACP_AUTO Port Configuration Mode..................................................................................106
Editing Configuration Files for Failover Groups...........................................................................107
Example: Configuring a Failover Group..................................................................................108
Proactive Failover Examples....................................................................................................110
D VLANs over APA Using HP Procurve Switches.......................................................113
Configuring VLANs over Link Aggregates .......................................................................................113
Configuring VLANs over Failover Groups........................................................................................114
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