HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide for HP-UX 11i v3 December 2007

4 Administering HP APA.................................................................................................45
Modifying a Link Aggregate................................................................................................................45
Modifying a Failover Group.................................................................................................................45
Deleting a Link Aggregate....................................................................................................................45
Deleting a Failover Group....................................................................................................................47
Displaying the Current APA Configuration.........................................................................................47
Displaying the Link Aggregate Details................................................................................................47
Modifying HP APA Global Parameters................................................................................................48
Performing Critical Resource Analysis.................................................................................................49
Stopping FEC or LACP Protocol...........................................................................................................49
Logging Messages to the syslog.log File...............................................................................................49
Examples..........................................................................................................................................49
Viewing HP APA Statistics...................................................................................................................50
Monitoring HP APA Statistics.........................................................................................................52
5 Using the nwmgr Command.......................................................................................55
nwmgr Overview..................................................................................................................................55
HP APA Tasks and the nwmgr Command...........................................................................................55
Displaying HP APA Configuration Information.............................................................................56
Creating a MANUAL Mode Link Aggregate..................................................................................59
Deleting an HP APA Interface.........................................................................................................60
Resetting a Data Flow......................................................................................................................60
Task Comparison with Other LAN Commands...................................................................................60
6 Troubleshooting HP APA.............................................................................................63
Operation..............................................................................................................................................63
Getting Started......................................................................................................................................63
Solving HP APA Problems...................................................................................................................63
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (MANUAL Mode)....................................................................66
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (LACP Mode)...........................................................................70
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (FEC Mode)..............................................................................76
Solving Failover Group Problems...................................................................................................80
Troubleshooting Tools Overview and Usage........................................................................................86
Testing Access to Internet Network Hosts......................................................................................86
Scanning the System Hardware......................................................................................................87
nettl Tracing and Logging Tool.............................................................................................................87
Reporting Problems .............................................................................................................................89
Gathering Information.....................................................................................................................89
A Product Specifications.................................................................................................91
B HP APA Configuration Files.........................................................................................93
hp_apaconf File.....................................................................................................................................93
hp_apaportconf File..............................................................................................................................95
lanconfig.ascii File.................................................................................................................................96
C Configuring HP APA by Editing Files......................................................................101
Editing Configuration Files for Link Aggregates...............................................................................101
Editing Files for MANUAL, FEC_AUTO, or LACP_AUTO Mode...............................................101
MANUAL Port Configuration Mode.......................................................................................101
FEC_AUTO Port Configuration Mode.....................................................................................102
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