User's Guide

Conﬁguring HyperFabric

Performing the Conﬁguration

Chapter 4

Using SMH

This section describes how to use SMH

to conﬁgure HyperFabric. For information on

how to use SMH to conﬁgure and deconﬁgure local failover feature on HMP, see

“Conﬁguring HMP for Transparent Local Failover Support - Using SMH” on page 88.

IMPORTANT If the global conﬁguration ﬁle already exists, and you are running SMH again (to change

the ﬁle), you can keep or modify the existing conﬁguration information, in addition to

adding new information pertaining to new hardware.

Also, once you’ve completed your changes and SMH ends its processing, you must stop

HyperFabric (by running the clic_shutdown command or using SMH) and then start

HyperFabric (by running the clic_start command or using SMH). Otherwise, your

conﬁguration information changes will not take effect. See “Stopping HyperFabric” on

page 110 and “Starting HyperFabric” on page 95 for more information.

To use SMH to create the global conﬁguration ﬁle on an HP 9000 system running

HP-UX 11i v3, follow these steps:

Step 1. Start SMH.

Step 2. Select the “Networking and Communications” area.

Step 3. Select the “Network Interfaces” option.

Step 4. Select “HyperFabric.”

All HyperFabric adapters installed in the system are listed; installed adapters that are

not yet conﬁgured show Not Configured in the “Status” ﬁeld.

Step 5. Highlight the adapter you want to conﬁgure.

Step 6. Pull down the “Actions” menu and select Configure Adapter.

Step 7. In the “Conﬁgure HyperFabric Adapter” screen, specify information for the following

ﬁelds:

• Internet Address—Required. The IP address of the adapter.

• Subnet Mask—Optional. The adapter’s subnet mask. If you do not specify this, a

default mask is chosen based on the adapter’s IP address.

• Interoperability Enabled—Required. Whether you want the adapter to be able to

interoperate with adapters that are using; any HP-UX 10.20 version of HyperFabric,

any HP-UX 11.0 HyperFabric versions earlier than B.11.00.11 or any HP-UX 11i

HyperFabric versions earlier than B.11.11.01. Note that if you select No, the

HyperFabric software on the system will not be backwards compatible with previous

releases. This means you must update all of the other systems in the fabric to the

version that is running on the system.

Default: No.

Step 8. Select OK (remember, you cannot enable switch management within SMH).

1. The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is an enhanced version of

System Administration Manager (SAM) and is introduced for managing HP-UX.