HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008

4 Administering HP APA.................................................................................................41
Modifying a Link Aggregate................................................................................................................41
Modifying a Failover Group.................................................................................................................41
Deleting a Link Aggregate....................................................................................................................41
Deleting a Failover Group....................................................................................................................43
Displaying the Current APA Configuration.........................................................................................43
Displaying the Link Aggregate Details................................................................................................43
Modifying HP APA Global Parameters................................................................................................44
Performing Critical Resource Analysis.................................................................................................45
Stopping FEC or LACP Protocol...........................................................................................................45
Logging Messages to the syslog.log File...............................................................................................45
Examples..........................................................................................................................................45
Viewing HP APA Statistics...................................................................................................................46
Monitoring HP APA Statistics.........................................................................................................48
5 Using the nwmgr Command.......................................................................................51
nwmgr Overview..................................................................................................................................51
HP APA Tasks and the nwmgr Command...........................................................................................51
Displaying HP APA Configuration Information.............................................................................52
Creating a MANUAL Mode Link Aggregate..................................................................................55
Deleting an HP APA Interface.........................................................................................................56
Resetting a Data Flow......................................................................................................................56
Task Comparison with Other LAN Commands...................................................................................56
6 Troubleshooting HP APA.............................................................................................59
Operation..............................................................................................................................................59
Getting Started......................................................................................................................................59
Solving HP APA Problems...................................................................................................................59
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (MANUAL Mode)....................................................................62
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (LACP Mode)...........................................................................66
Solving Link Aggregate Problems (FEC Mode)..............................................................................72
Solving Failover Group Problems...................................................................................................76
Troubleshooting Tools Overview and Usage........................................................................................82
Testing Access to Internet Network Hosts......................................................................................82
Scanning the System Hardware......................................................................................................83
nettl Tracing and Logging Tool.............................................................................................................83
Reporting Problems .............................................................................................................................85
Gathering Information.....................................................................................................................85
A Product Specifications.................................................................................................87
B HP APA Configuration Files.........................................................................................89
hp_apaconf File.....................................................................................................................................89
hp_apaportconf File..............................................................................................................................91
lanconfig.ascii File.................................................................................................................................92
C Configuring HP APA by Editing Files.........................................................................97
Editing Configuration Files for Link Aggregates.................................................................................97
Editing Files for MANUAL, FEC_AUTO, or LACP_AUTO Mode.................................................97
MANUAL Port Configuration Mode.........................................................................................97
FEC_AUTO Port Configuration Mode.......................................................................................98
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