Document Outline

• About this Guide
  • About 1.4 Update 2
  • How to use this Guide
  • Manual sets
    • SP Switch Router manuals
    • IBM SP system manuals
  • Documentation conventions
  • IP routing publications
• Introduction to the SP Switch Router Adapter card
  • What is the RS/6000 SP Switch Router ?
  • SP Switch Router systems for IBM sites
    • Cables included in your system
      • SP Switch cable
      • Ethernet cable
      • SP ground strap
    • PCMCIA 520MB disk
    • Redundant AC power supplies
      • Redundant supply safety
  • Upgrading system memory
  • Overview of the SP Switch Router Adapter card
    • Face plate diagram
  • Inserting a media card into the SP Switch Router
    • ESD requirements
    • Card insertion procedure
  • SP Switch Router Adapter card LEDs
    • LED activity during boot
    • LED activity during normal operations
  • SP Switch Router Adapter card specifications
  • Assigning filters
  • SNMP on the SP Switch Router Adapter card
    • SP Switch Router Adapter dependent node MIB support
    • SP Switch Router Adapter media card states (SNMP)
    • SNMP configuration overview
    • SNMP activity during media card start up
• Configuring the SP Switch Router Adapter
  • Introduction to installation and configuration
    • Location of relevant information
    • Pre-installation assumptions
    • Order of information
  • Installing an SP Switch Router Adapter card
    • Installation overview
  • Installing the PCMCIA spinning disk
    • Managing PCMCIA slots
    • Panic dumps sent to external flash device
    • Installation steps
  • Attaching SP Switch Router cables
    • Ethernet cable
    • SP switch cable
    • Procedure for attaching cables to card and SP Switch
  • Configuration required on the SP system
    • Determining the switch connection for a dependent node
      • Procedure
    • Sources of configuration information
    • Multiple frames for multiple system connections
  • Step-by-step media card configuration
    • Configuration files and their uses
    • Overview of steps 1–5
  • Step 1. Check SNMP in the SP Switch Router system
    • Put SNMP changes into effect
  • Step 2. Assign IP addresses
    • Method 1: Recommended, use SP SNMP Manager
    • Method 2: Optional, edit /etc/grifconfig.conf
      • Interface name
      • Internet address
      • Netmask
      • Broadcast / destination address
      • Argument field
    • Putting grifconfig.conf additions into effect
  • Step 3. Change profile settings
    • Specify card-level parameters – Card profile
      • Specify ICMP throttling
      • Specify different executables
      • Specify different dump settings
    • Change executables for all dev1 cards - Load profile
    • Change dump defaults for all dev1 cards - Dump profile
      • Dump vectors (read-only)
  • Step 4. Run dev1config to create grdev1.conf
    • Method 1: Recommended, use SP SNMP Manager
    • Method 2: Optional, edit /etc/grdev1.conf
    • How to run the command
    • Contents of /etc/grdev1.conf
    • Parameter definitions
  • Step 5. Reset card to install files
    • Saving configuration files
  • Verify SP Switch Router Adapter card from router
    • Verify media card operation using ping
    • Verify switch node connectivity using ping
    • Check media card status using grcard
      • Media card states
    • Reset media card using grreset
  • Bringing the SP Switch Router Adapter card on-line with the SP
    • Checking connectivity to the SP system
    • Procedure
• Monitoring and Management Tools
  • SP Switch Router command overview
    • csconfig
    • flashcmd
    • getver
    • grarp
    • grcard
    • grfins
    • grms
    • grreset
    • grrmb
    • grroute
    • grrt
    • grsite
    • grsnapshot
    • grstat
    • grwrite
    • mountf
    • setver
    • umountf
    • vpurge
  • SP Switch Router UNIX tools
    • ping
    • route
    • tcpdump
    • traceroute
  • Using the netstat command
    • netstat -rn
    • netstat -rs
    • netstat -in
    • netstat -an
    • netstat -s
  • Obtaining layer 2 and 3 statistics - grstat
    • Options
    • Layer 3 statistics
      • List of IP stats
    • Layer 2 statistics
      • List of layer 2 stats
  • SP Switch Router Adapter card maint commands
    • Preparing to use maint commands
    • Sample maint commands
      • Find hardware and software version numbers - maint 2
      • Find transmit (tx) binary version - maint 102
      • Display configuration and status - maint 3
      • maint 4 - display media statistics
      • maint 5 - display switch statistics
      • maint 6 - display combus statistics
      • Filtering commands - maint 50-58, 150-58
      • List the filters per media card - maint 50
      • List where filters are assigned - maint 54
      • Configure UDP packet discards - maint 89 7
      • Display ARP table - maint 189 1
      • Flush the ARP cache - maint 189 10
      • Display switch route table - maint 189 2
      • “Switch route not found”
  • Checking for hardware problems - grdiag
    • What is tested
    • Where to find the user guide
    • Stopping or halting grdiag
    • When a media card does not boot after grdiag
    • “Switch receive error” can indicate hardware problem
  • SP Switch Router dumps
    • System dumps
    • Media card dumps
    • Use grdinfo to collect logs
  • Data collection utility - grdinfo
    • Options
    • SP Switch Router example
  • SP Switch Router logs
    • Accessing a log file
    • Sample gr.console log
    • Sample gr.boot log
    • Sample messages log
  • Burning in media card flash memory
• Part Numbers
  • Parts list – model 04S
  • Parts list – model 16S
  • Publication numbers – IBM manuals
• Log Messages
  • Alphabetical list of messages
  • Message descriptions
• Network Configuration Examples
  • Example 1: Single SP Switch Router Adapter card, single SP partition
    • Configuration requirements
  • Example 2: Multiple cards, single partition
    • Configuration requirements
    • Configuration tasks
    • Incoming traffic (going to SP processor nodes)
    • Outgoing traffic (coming from SP processor nodes)
  • Recovery procedure if an SP Switch Router Adapter card fails
  • Example 3: Multiple cards, multiple SP partitions:
    • Configuration tasks
• Upgrading Router Software
  • The SP Switch Router as an IBM product
  • Obtaining new machine code
  • Support for code installation
  • IBM License Agreement for Machine Code
• Index