Administrative Methods

HP System Administration Manager

The HP System Administration Manager (SAM) enables you to administer your HP-UX system locally via a graphical user interface (GUI) and terminal user interface (TUI). SAM produces fewer errors and saves your configuration data permanently so configuration does not require a reboot to take effect. It is the recommended method for configuring link aggregates.

	NOTE: You cannot use SAM to configure failover groups. For more information, see “Editing Configuration Files for Failover Groups” and “Configuring VLANs over Failover Groups”.

In this manual, wherever SAM is mentioned in relation to HP APA configuration tasks, it is presumed that you know how to invoke it.

For more information about the System Administration Manager, see sam(1M) and the online help.

lanadmin Command

You can also use the lanadmin command from the HP-UX command line to make changes to HP APA. By default, those changes are not preserved across reboots. For more information about the lanadmin command and using it to administer APA, see lanadmin(1M) and Chapter 4, respectively.

Manually Editing Configuration Files

Some sections of this manual describe the system files that are updated or modified when you perform an administrative task. Experienced UNIX administrators might prefer to administer their systems manually by editing these files, as opposed to invoking the documented utility; however, HP strongly recommends that you use SAM to update the system files.

In many cases, the SAM is the best alternative to manually editing system files, thus it is the utility that is most frequently discussed in this manual.