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Configuring the SP Switch Router Adapter

Introduction to installation and configuration

Location of relevant information

The intent of this chapter is to either provide or refer you to the necessary information to enable you to attach an SP Switch Router to an IBM SP system, including:

•Information to physically connect the two independent systems across cables is complete in this chapter.

•Information to start up, configure, and begin operations on the SP Switch Router is contained in the GRF 400/1600 Getting Started manual.

•Information to configure the SP Switch Router Adapter card as required for SP Switch Router functionality is complete in this chapter.

•Information to configure the SP Switch Router Adapter card as required for SP system functionality is only partially described in this chapter. Detailed information is contained in the “Managing Extension Nodes” chapter in the PSSP Administration Guide.

Pre-installation assumptions

The presentation of information in this chapter assumes the following:

•The SP Switch Router is powered on and has a VT-100 terminal or administrative Ethernet network connected to its control board.

•The SP Switch Router’s basic system parameters, primarily IP address and host name, have been configured during the first time power-on configuration script.

You use the terminal or network to log in to the SP Switch Router system and enter those basic configuration parameters. Procedures for starting and setting up the SP Switch Router are found in the GRF 400/1600 Getting Started manual.

•Remote Telnet access is enabled. This requires editing the/etc/ttys file and creating an entry for each remote session needed. Refer to Chapter 2 in the GRF Configuration and Management manual.

Use the following command when telneting to the SP Switch Router from an X terminal:

xterm -sb-e tn <hostname_of_SP_Switch_Router>

This command ensures the screen output of the SP Switch Router is displayed correctly.

•The SP Switch Router’s operating parameters, such as SNMP and IP addressing, have been configured and the system rebooted so it is up and operating. Procedures to configure operating parameters are found in the GRF Configuration and Management manual, Chapter 2.

Descriptions of configuration and system management commands you may need are found in the GRF Reference Guide.

•You are ready to configure media cards. Procedures to configure media cards other than the SP Switch Router Adapter card are found in the GRF Configuration and Management manual

•The IBM SP system is up and operating.

•The SP system administrator has given you one of these pieces of information:

–the node number assigned to each SP Switch Router Adapter card to be attached to an SP Switch port

or

–the port location on each SP Switch reserved for specific SP Switch Router Adapter cards

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