HP HyperFabric manual Performing the Configuration

Configuring HyperFabric

Performing the Configuration

NOTE

IMPORTANT

Performing the Configuration

As explained in “Configuration Overview” on page 69, you must create the global configuration file (/etc/rc.config.d/clic_global_conf) on each node in the fabric. This consists mostly of specifying HyperFabric adapter-related information. (If you are also going to enable switch management — which HP does not recommend doing — you need to specify additional configuration information.)

Specifying configuration information adds or changes only the addresses and other information in the global configuration file, based on the information you supply. It does not perform any operations to check the relationships between that information and any physical connections within the fabric.

You need to create the global configuration file in the following situations:

•You have just installed the HyperFabric hardware and software on the system.

•You want to change the information in the HyperFabric global configuration file (see the preceding note).

Creating the global configuration file also modifies the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file, adding some HyperFabric-related lines that end with the characters #clic. These lines are used by the HyperFabric software — and are not comments — so do not remove them from the file.

You can create the global configuration file by using the clic_init command (described in “Using the clic_init Command” on page 79) or SAM (described in “Using SAM” on page 81). You cannot enable switch management through SAM (you must use the clic_init command).

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