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Conﬁguring and Verifying HP EISA and HSC FDDI/9000

Conﬁguration Overview

These instructions describe how to conﬁgure HP EISA FDDI/9000 or

HSC FDDI/9000 on HP- UX version 11.0 or above. To determine the

operating system version you are using, type the following command:

uname -a

Once you have installed HP EISA FDDI/9000 HSC FDDI/9000 hardware

and software, you can use SAM to automatically conﬁgure networking.

SAM stands for System Administration Manager, a menu-driven utility

for system administration tasks, including conﬁguration of networking

software. SAM has two user interfaces, an X-Window system interface

and a text terminal interface. The primary components and functionality

of SAM are the same for both interfaces. The differences are the screen

appearance and the navigation methods.

You can get to the SAM online help system using the following methods:

• Choose an item from the “Help” menu (located in the menubar). This

gives you information about the current SAM screen, keyboard

navigation within SAM, using the SAM help system, and displaying

the version of SAM you are currently running.

• Activate the Help button from a dialog or message box. This gives

you information about the attributes and tasks you can do from the

currently displayed window.

• Press the F1 key. This gives you context-sensitive information for the

object at the location of the cursor.

Using SAM, conﬁguring HP EISA FDDI/9000 or HSC FDDI/9000 can be

divided into two procedures:

1. Conﬁguring the EISA FDDI or HSC FDDI link

2. Conﬁguring network connectivity

When conﬁguring the EISA or HSC FDDI link, you will add the IP

address, any alias names, and, if the EISA or HSC FDDI card is on a

subnetwork, the subnet mask for your FDDI card. This procedure will

automatically initialize the FDDI link and attach your node to the local