HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (766140-001, March 2014)

Displaying the current APA configuration...................................................................................34
Displaying the link aggregate details........................................................................................34
Modifying HP APA global parameters.......................................................................................35
Performing Critical Resource Analysis........................................................................................36
Stopping FEC or LACP protocol................................................................................................36
Logging messages to the syslog.log file.....................................................................................36
Examples..........................................................................................................................36
Viewing HP APA statistics.........................................................................................................37
Monitoring HP APA statistics................................................................................................39
5 Using the nwmgr command.......................................................................41
nwmgr overview.....................................................................................................................41
HP APA tasks and the nwmgr command....................................................................................41
Displaying HP APA configuration information.........................................................................42
Creating a LACP mode link aggregate.................................................................................46
Deleting an HP APA interface..............................................................................................47
Resetting a data flow..........................................................................................................47
Task comparison with other LAN commands..............................................................................47
6 Troubleshooting HP APA............................................................................50
Operation.............................................................................................................................50
Getting started.......................................................................................................................50
Solving HP APA problems........................................................................................................50
Solving link aggregate problems (LACP mode).......................................................................52
Solving link aggregate problems (FEC mode).........................................................................58
Solving failover group problems...........................................................................................62
Troubleshooting tools overview and use.....................................................................................68
Testing access to Internet network hosts.................................................................................68
Scanning the system hardware.............................................................................................69
nettl tracing and logging tool...................................................................................................69
Reporting problems ................................................................................................................71
Gathering information........................................................................................................71
7 Support and other resources......................................................................73
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................73
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................73
New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................73
Related information.................................................................................................................73
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................73
8 Documentation feedback...........................................................................75
A Product specifications...............................................................................76
B HP APA configuration files.........................................................................77
hp_apaconf file......................................................................................................................77
hp_apaportconf file................................................................................................................79
lanconfig.ascii file...................................................................................................................80
C Configuring HP APA by editing files............................................................85
Editing configuration files for link aggregates.............................................................................85
Editing files for FEC_AUTO or LACP_AUTO mode..................................................................85
LACP_AUTO port configuration mode..............................................................................85
FEC_AUTO port configuration mode................................................................................86
Editing configuration files for failover groups..........................................................................86
Example: Configuring a failover group.............................................................................88
Proactive failover examples.............................................................................................90
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