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Note – The following steps should be applied to all networks that you want to
alternately path except the primary network.
a. Create the network pathgroup:
# apnet -c -p network_interface -a network_interface
# apconfig -N -u
...
As shown above, you can verify the results of the apnet(1M) command by using
apconfig(1M).
b. Commit the network pathgroup entries in the database:
# apdb -C
You can verify the results of the apdb(1M) command by using the
apconfig(1M) command with the -N option.
c. Remove all direct usage of both members of the network pathgroups.
If the physical interface is currently plumbed, and it is not the interface that you
will be using as you run commands to configure the metanetwork, you can
unplumb the physical interface by using the ifconfig(1M) command.
d. Create an /etc/hostname.mnetwork_interface_name file for any metanetworks
that you want to configure when the server is rebooted.
4. Create the AP metanetwork for the primary network.
a. View the contents of the /etc/nodename and /etc/hostname.interface_name
files to verify that the interface name is the same.
b. Create the primary network pathgroup:
# apnet -c -p network_interface -a network_interface
Where:
-c creates the new primary network pathgroup
-p designates the primary network path
-a designates the alternate path
126 Solaris 7 11/99 Sun Hardware Platform Guide • November 1999