Interoperability With Hp Serviceguard; Administrative Methods; Hp System Management Homepage - HP -UX 11i v3 Administrator's Manual

• You can use VLANs over one link aggregate to serve multiple workgroups. This also enables
broadcast traffic to be isolated within the same broadcast domain, offering improved security
for workgroups.
• The same link aggregate or failover group can offer different level of service for each user
using ToS. You gain more flexibility in how you deploy link aggregates and failover groups.
• You can create, remove, and modify VLANs over link aggregates and failover groups without
rebooting the system. This enables you to configure networking on a server without
disrupting other users.
For more information on managing and using VLANs, see HP-UX VLAN Administrator's Guide
and your switch documentation.
Appendix D (page 105)
groups and guidelines for each configuration.

Interoperability with HP Serviceguard

To use HP Serviceguard with HP APA, you must use HP Serviceguard version A.11.17.01 or
later. HP Serviceguard can use Manual, FEC, and LACP link aggregates, and failover
groups(LAN_MONITOR mode). The maximum number of links for each link aggregate is 8 for
FEC_AUTO and 32 for LACP_AUTO. For installation guidelines, see
Serviceguard" (page

Administrative methods

The following sections provide a brief overview of the methods for administering HP APA. HP
recommends that you use the System Management Homepage (SMH) whenever possible.

HP System Management Homepage

The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) enables you to administer your HP-UX
system locally via a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and terminal user interface (TUI).
It provides a single, hierarchical menu interface that allows you to quickly find and invoke
applications to perform the most common system tasks.
In this manual, wherever HP SMH is mentioned in relation to HP APA configuration and
administrative tasks, it is presumed that you know how to invoke it. To invoke the HP SMH, do
the following:
describes characteristics of using VLANs over link aggregates and failover
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