Administrator's Guide

Conﬁguring HyperFabric

Conﬁguration Overview

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Conﬁguration Overview

You do not need to conﬁgure the HyperFabric switch because the

HyperFabric management process performs automatic routing and

conﬁguring for the switch. So, conﬁguring HyperFabric consists only of

creating the HyperFabric /etc/rc.config.d/clic_global_conf global

conﬁguration ﬁle on each node in the fabric. The conﬁguration ﬁle

contains the following information:

• The IP addresses and subnet mask of the HyperFabric adapters

installed in the node.

• For each HyperFabric switch in the fabric — the switch’s IP address,

and the MAC address of the switch’s Ethernet port. This applies only

if you enable switch management. In addition, you cannot enable

switch management through SAM — you must use the clic_init

command.

• The IP multicast address that all the switches and nodes in the

fabric will register to (if you are going to enable switch

management).

• The IP address of the local node’s Ethernet LAN interface. This LAN

interface must be on the same subnet as Ethernet ports of the

HyperFabric switches (if you are going to enable switch

management). (A node might have multiple LAN interfaces.)

NOTE HP recommends that you do not enable switch management.

You can create the global conﬁguration ﬁle by either running the

clic_init command or using SAM to conﬁgure each HyperFabric

adapter.

The clic_init command and SAM also place the necessary entries into

the following three ﬁles:

• The system /etc/rc.config.d/netconf ﬁle.