NonStop NS-Series Planning Guide (H06.04+)

Control, Configuration, and Maintenance Tools
HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series Planning Guide—529567-005
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Multiple System Consoles Managing One System
Multiple System Consoles Managing One System
Two maintenance switches provide fault tolerance and extra ports for adding system
consoles. You must change the preconfigured IP addresses of the second and
subsequent system consoles before you can add them to the LAN.
Cascading Ethernet Switch or Hub Configuration
Additional Ethernet switches or hubs can be connected (cascaded) to the maintenance
switches already installed. Primary and backup system consoles and the server must
be on the same subnet.
You must change the preconfigured IP addresses of the second and subsequent
system consoles before you can add them to the LAN.
Multiple System Consoles Managing Multiple Systems
The servers must have fault-tolerant dedicated service LAN connections to the
Ethernet switches or hubs. In addition, the system consoles and the servers must be
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