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Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces

Network Conﬁguration for a Service Processor

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Network Conﬁguration for a

Service Processor

This section describes how to list and conﬁgure the network settings for

service processor (GSP or MP) hardware. These settings are used for

connections to the service processor and are not used for HP-UX

networking.

Details on conﬁguring service processor networking are given in the

procedure Conﬁguring Service Processor Network Settings on page 148.

The service processor utility hardware on HP Superdome servers has

two network connections: the customer LAN and private LAN. The

service processor on HP rp8400 and HP rp7410 servers do not have a

private LAN but have only customer LAN connections.

Features of service processor LANs are given in the following list.

• Customer LAN for Service Processor

The customer LAN is the connection for login access to the service

processor menus, consoles, commands, and other features.

All HP nPartition servers have a customer LAN.

On HP Superdome servers, the customer LAN port is labeled

“Customer LAN”. On HP rp8400 servers it is “GSP LAN”. On HP

rp7410 servers it is the only LAN connection on each core I/O board.

• Private LAN for Service Processor (Superdome Only)

The private LAN is the connection to the Superdome service

support processor (SSP) workstation.

Only Superdome servers have a private LAN.

To conﬁgure service processor network settings, you can use the the

Command menu’s LC command.

To list the current service processor network conﬁguration use the LS

command.

The following examples show service processor LAN status for various

HP nPartition servers.