HP manual HyperFabric Concepts

Overview of the HyperFabric Product

HyperFabric Concepts

reason (for example, if it is killed), all HyperFabric-related communications on that node are stopped immediately. This makes the node unreachable by other components in the fabric.

When you start HyperFabric, the fabric is verified automatically. This is because each node performs a self diagnosis and verification over each adapter installed in the node. In addition, the management process performs automatic routing and configuring for each switch (if switches are part of the fabric). You can, if needed, run the clic_stat command to get a textual map of the fabric, which can be used as another method of quick verification.

Notice that the commands to administer HyperFabric have a prefix of clic_, and some of the other components have CLIC as part of their name (for example, the CLIC firmware and the CLIC software). CLIC stands for CLuster InterConnect, and it is used to differentiate those HyperFabric commands or components from other commands or components. For example, the HyperFabric command clic_init is different from the HP-UX init command.

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