4 Administering HP APA
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39
Modifying a link aggregate...................................................................................................................39
Modifying a failover group...................................................................................................................39
Deleting a link aggregate......................................................................................................................39
Deleting a failover group......................................................................................................................41
Displaying the current APA configuration...........................................................................................41
Displaying the link aggregate details...................................................................................................41
Modifying HP APA global parameters.................................................................................................42
Performing Critical Resource Analysis.................................................................................................43
Stopping FEC or LACP protocol...........................................................................................................43
Logging messages to the syslog.log file................................................................................................43
Examples..........................................................................................................................................43
Viewing HP APA statistics....................................................................................................................44
Monitoring HP APA statistics.........................................................................................................46
5 Using the nwmgr command
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49
nwmgr overview...................................................................................................................................49
HP APA tasks and the nwmgr command.............................................................................................49
Displaying HP APA configuration information..............................................................................50
Creating a MANUAL mode link aggregate....................................................................................53
Deleting an HP APA interface.........................................................................................................54
Resetting a data flow.......................................................................................................................54
Task comparison with other LAN commands......................................................................................54
6 Troubleshooting HP APA
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Operation..............................................................................................................................................57
Getting started......................................................................................................................................57
Solving HP APA problems...................................................................................................................57
Solving link aggregate problems (MANUAL mode)......................................................................60
Solving link aggregate problems (LACP mode).............................................................................64
Solving link aggregate problems (FEC mode)................................................................................70
Solving failover group problems.....................................................................................................74
Troubleshooting tools overview and use..............................................................................................80
Testing access to Internet network hosts.........................................................................................80
Scanning the system hardware........................................................................................................81
nettl tracing and logging tool................................................................................................................81
Reporting problems .............................................................................................................................83
Gathering information.....................................................................................................................84
7 Support and other resources
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85
Contacting HP.......................................................................................................................................85
Documentation feedback.................................................................................................................85
New and changed information in this edition.....................................................................................85
Revision history....................................................................................................................................85
Related information..............................................................................................................................85
Documents.......................................................................................................................................85
Typographic conventions......................................................................................................................85
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