Page 3 - Contents
Contents Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Network Configuration Utility and Scripting .................................................................................................. 4 S...
Page 4 - Overview; Network Configuration Utility and Scripting
Overview Network Configuration Utility and Scripting The HP Network Configuration Utility (NCU) enables configuration of network adapters and teams of network adapters. The scripting feature of the utility provides the ability to perform adapter configuration using a batch process. This guide provid...
Page 5 - Scripting; Preliminary scripting information
Scripting Preliminary scripting information When using scripting to configure target systems, adapters are identified by their relative order in the system. The relative order is determined by the following properties. • Slot and port order for adapters in non-HP BladeSystem configurations • Enclosu...
Page 6 - Scrip; t conversion
download the latest version of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) and required Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1) hotfixes in article numbers 921136, 919948, and 923187 of the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB). These Microsoft hotfixes are required only for ows Server 2003...
Page 7 - Comm
• Manual is converted to Network Fault Tolerance Only (NFT). SmartSwitch is converted to Network Fault Tolerance Only with Preference Order. • rimaryNic attribute determines which team member aryRanking attribute. Scrip nfiguration script file to duplicate rce ProLiant BL/ML/DL server on a target se...
Page 8 - Comm d line a; an; Comman
/S /D /C /P The /L argument can be used with any of the configuration options. The /F argument can only be used ith the configuration option. Comm d line a Argument w /C an rguments Description /S This configuration option causes the source server configuration to be saved. The name of the XML confi...
Page 9 - Command line help
cqniccmd /Cc:\HP\teamcfg.xml /Lc: cqniccmd /C c:\HP\teamcfg.xml /L c \HP\config.log :\HP\config.log cqniccmd /C"c:\HP\teamcfg.xml" /L" c:\HP\config.log" Command line help The f an be used to display usage information. For e P<filename>] nges the name and location of the logfile...
Page 10 - Configuration properties; Adapter configuration properties
Configuration properties Adapter configuration properties The following properties are configured on the target server adapters from the source server data. Properties that are common to all HP adapters include: • SpeedDuplex —Determines the current speed and duplex of the adapter. Possible values i...
Page 12 - Team configuration properties
x64 (SP1), download SNP and required Microsoft hotfixes and install them on the system. See the Microsoft ( http://www.microsoft.com ) website to download the latest version of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) and required Microsoft Windows Server 948, and 923187 of t...
Page 14 - XML data file; XML elements and typical adapter teaming script
XML data file XML elements and typical adapter teaming script The XML data file contains configuration properties for adapters and teams and consists of the following XML elements: • <teamingconfig>-Brackets the entire data file and is required. • <nic>-Defines adapter properties. • <...
Page 17 - Error handling and reporting; Error checking and completion code
Error handling and reporting Error checking and completion code Errors can occur for a variety of reasons including differences between the source and target system NICs or because of errors introduced by editing the XML data file. The software performs extensive error checking as the XML data file ...
Page 18 - Acronyms and abbreviations
Acronyms and abbreviations iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface NCU Network Configuration Utility NFT network fault tolerant RSS Receive-Side Scaling TOE TCP/IP Offload Engine VLAN virtual local-area network XML extensible markup language Acronyms and abbreviations 18
Page 19 - Index
Index A adapter properties 10 C command line options 8 CQNICCMD 7 E error code 17 examples 8 L log file 17 O overview of configuration procedure 5 R Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) 5, 10, 12 RSS (Receive-Side Scaling) 5, 10, 12 S script conversion 6 scripting application 7 scripting syntax 7 T TCP/IP Off...
