HyperFabric Configuration Guidelines

TCP/UDP/IP

TCP/UDP/IP is supported on HF2 hardware. Although some of the

HyperFabric adapter cards support both HMP and TCP/UDP/IP

applications, in this section, the focus is on TCP/UDP/IP HyperFabric

applications.

Application Availability

All applications, including Oracle 9i and HP-MPI, that use the

TCP/UDP/IP stack are supported.

Features

The following are the features that HyperFabric supports on

TCP/UDP/IP:

• OnLine Addition and Replacement (OLAR): Supported

The OLAR feature allows the replacement or addition of

HyperFabric adapter cards while the system (node) is running.

HyperFabric supports this functionality on the SD64A, rx8620,

rx4640, rp54xx (L-class), rp74xx (N-class), rp8400 and Superdome

systems, running on the HP-UX 11i v1 platform with patch

PHNE_27745.

For more information on OLAR, including instructions for

implementing this feature, see Installing and Administering

HyperFabric Part Number B6257-90030 Edition E0601, HyperFabric

Administrator’s Guide Part Number B6257-90039, Hyper Fabric

Release Notes Part Number B6257-90025 Edition E1200,

HyperFabric Release Notes Part Number B6257-90029 Edition

E0601, Hyper Fabric Release Notes Part Number B6257-90040,

Configuring HP-UX for Peripherals Part Number B2355-90698

November 2000 Edition.

• Event Monitoring Service (EMS): Supported

Starting with the December 2000 releases of HyperFabric

(B.11.00.11 and B.11.11.01), the HyperFabric EMS monitor enables

the system administrator to separately monitor each HyperFabric

adapter on every node in the fabric, in addition to monitoring the