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- HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 1
HP Integrity Servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide HP Part Number: 5992-0904 Published: March 2007 - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 2
such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Intel and Itanium are - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 3
Pack licenses 10 HP Integrity Essentials Network License Manager 10 Running License Manager from the Network Configuration Utility 11 Running License Manager during a Virus Throttle installation 12 Installing a license using the License Manager 13 Installing licenses using the Network Adapter - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 4
Configuring advanced networking features 50 Configuring discovery protocols...52 4 Table of Contents - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 5
11 1-2 NCU Main page...12 1-3 Virus Throttle tray icon ...12 1-4 HP Integrity Essentials Network License Manager 13 1-5 Install License Key window...13 2-1 Virus Throttle tray icon ...18 2-2 Virus Throttle Status tab...18 2-3 Virus Throttle inconsistency message 19 2-4 Virus Throttle Configuration - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 6
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List of Tables 2-1 Command line arguments...27 2-2 Return codes...28 6-1 Installing an Intelligent Networking Pack license 49 6-2 Using Virus Throttle...49 6-3 Configuring advanced networking features 50 6-4 Configuring discovery protocols 52 7 - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 8
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Pack (INP) enables your servers to actively adapt to networking infrastructure problems, thereby improving server availability and network performance. INP is part of the Integrity Essentials software family and is integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Management agents. The Intelligent - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 10
user guide describes how to install an Intelligent Networking Pack license on your system and how to install and configure the Intelligent Networking Pack features. For more information about obtaining an INP license, refer to the HP INP web page. Intelligent Networking Pack licenses Each server - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 11
number on the left side of the screen. 5. In your server Software screen, under the section, "Configuration and Diagnostic Utilities", select HP Network Configuration Utility for Windows Server 2003 on Itanium-based systems. 6. In the NCU screen, read the Release Notes and installation instructions - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 12
model number on the left side of the screen. 5. In your server Software screen, under the section, "Configuration and Diagnostic Utilities", select HP Virus Throttle. 6. In the Virus Throttle screen, read the Release Notes and installation instructions for this utility. Then click the Download - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 13
well as view the status of other licenses on your system. Figure 1-4 HP Integrity Essentials Network License Manager To enter a new license from the HP Integrity Essentials Network License Manager main window: 1. Click the Install License(s) button and the Install License Key Window displays. Figure - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 14
at the documentation installed on your hard drive at C:\HP\network, after you install HP System Management Homepage (SMH). Installing licenses using the Virus Throttle License Utility The Virus Throttle License utility ships with Virus Throttle. It is a Windows-based command line utility that runs - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 15
licenses using the Systems Insight Manager (SIM) License Manager HP recommends you use the HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) License Manager for concurrently installing and monitoring Intelligent Networking Pack licenses on multiple servers. For information about the HP Systems Insight Manager, go - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 16
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Select your server model number on the left side of the screen. 5. In your server Software screen, under the section, "Drivers", select HP Virus Throttle for Windows Server 2003 on Itanium-based systems. 6. In the Virus Throttle screen, read the Release Notes and installation instructions for this - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 18
continues. Using Virus Throttle After you install Virus Throttle, the parameters for the filter driver are set to defaults. Any changes made to those parameters are made to all active instances of the Virus Throttle filter driver. To open the Virus Throttle Status and Configuration Utility - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 19
is installed on the system or a new team or VLAN is created, the parameters for that interface are set to the default settings. When the Virus Throttle Status and Configuration Utility runs, it looks for inconsistencies in the settings for all the active instances, and prompts you to update these - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 20
is 1-50. This setting is only supported for UDP packets. The following controls are available: • TCP: enables configuration of delay queue and host settings for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packets. • UDP: enables configuration of delay queue and host settings for User Datagram Protocol (UDP - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 21
are changed for all the active instances of the Virus Throttle filter driver, and the Virus Throttle Status and Configuration Utility closes. Monitoring Virus Throttle status The Status Tab shows overall status, statistics, and delay queue information. Statistics and delay queue information can be - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 22
Figure 2-9 Virus Throttle Status tab • Status: displays the current state and number of interfaces with virus-like activity since the Virus Throttle filter drivers were initialized. - No Virus-like activity is occurring: no virus-like activity is currently detected and none has been detected. - - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 23
a per-instance basis. • License Manager: opens the License Manager dialog box, for adding new INP licenses to the system or viewing currently installed licenses. • OK: processes all changes made in the current session and closes the Virus Throttle Status and Configuration Utility. • Cancel: cancels - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 24
the box labeled "This connection uses the following items", click to clear the checkmark in front of the HP Virus Throttle Driver item. 4. Click OK to implement the change and close the Network Connections window for that connection. This process does not require a system reboot. NOTE: This process - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 25
tab, in the box labeled "This connection uses the following items", click to select the HP Virus Throttle Driver item. 4. Click OK to implement the change and close the Network Connections window for that connection. This process does not require a system reboot. NOTE: This process binds Virus - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 26
from the drop-down list. The Local Area Connection Properties window displays. Figure 2-12 Local Area Connection Properties 3. On the General tab, in the box labeled "This connection uses the following items", click the HP Virus Throttle Driver item to highlight it. Then click the Uninstall button - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 27
chapter, you can use HP Virus Throttle License Utility (VTLicense) to add INP licenses to your Integrity server or display information about existing licenses. This utility runs at the command line in a Command Prompt window, or from a Windows command file. The VTLicense command determines if the - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 28
it does: Displays all valid licenses on the system and upon successful operation writes the following message to both stdout and to the license.txt file located in the same directory as VTLicense.exe: License String;Product Name;Ver;Type;Seats Used;Days;Permitted;Left;AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-12345-12345 - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 29
Seats Used: 1 Days Permitted: Days Left: Unlimited Virus Throttle License Utility 29 - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 30
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With an Intelligent Networking Pack license installed on your system, you can enable six additional team types and three advanced redundancy types. This chapter describes how to activate and configure these features. Advanced team types include: • Switch-assisted Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 32
option of setting the priority order of the adapters that are used in the primary and secondary teams. Dual Channel Load Balancing Dual Channel Load Balancing allows the creation of two teams, called groups, inside of a single team. Each group is assigned one or more teamed ports. Each group - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 33
. Transmit Load Balancing Methods include: • Automatic (Recommended): default setting. Teaming driver selects the load balancing mechanism based on the packet type. • TCP Connection: load balances transmitted TCP packets using the TCP connection information. • Destination IP Address: load balances - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 34
balances transmit IP packets using the last four Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance or 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Load Balancing as the team type, the User Preference • Port Name: displays the network adapter number, slot, and port location for the team member. • Status: displays the status of - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 35
members can receive router protocol frames. Because all team members have equal router path status, the team member is still in use by the team. - Failed (Active Path) - the member is not receiving replies from the configured echo node. - Failed (Split LAN:FP) - team members are receiving BPDUs from - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 36
to listen to VLAN. • Cisco PVST+ - allows you to select the VLAN ID to be used for Fast Path Failover monitoring. (Refer to "Configuring VLAN IDs." section) Router Path Failover Router Redundancy Protocols (HSRP, VRRP) allow you to set up two or more routers into a single router group, which acts as - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 37
including routers, HSRP devices, and Linux servers. If Community Address ARP is selected, you must enter the IP address to be used for the community probe. You can also configure the MAC address to be used or use the MAC address default. The advantage of using Community Address ARP is that it works - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 38
of Spanning Tree Protocol used. 13. Click OK to apply the changes. Configuring Fast Path Failover Fast Path Failover is enabled through the Team Properties Advanced Redundancy tab. This feature is disabled if a valid INP license is not installed on the system. To configure Fast Path Failover for - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 39
category changes to Bus/IO Bay/Port for HP Blade servers, like the BL860c. • Status. Displays team member status: Refer to "Configuring a Dual Channel Load Balancing team". • Router Path State. If Router Path is enabled, it displays the state: OK, Degraded, Failed, and Failed (Split LAN); otherwise - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 40
are allowed if you want to use the same names for different VLAN IDs. 5. The next available VLAN ID appears in the VLAN ID box. Change the VLAN ID by either typing an ID or by using the list to select a valid ID. A valid ID is any number that is not already being used for a VLAN defined on this team - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 41
the team is created. • Active Path VLAN Id: allows you to select the VLAN ID used for Active Path Failover validation. This control is enabled only if Active Path Failover is configured for the team. The default setting is the VLAN on the team with the lowest VLAN ID at the time the team is created - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 42
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which can be used to detect misconfigurations and troubleshooting problems on the network. Configuring discovery protocols From the Discovery Protocols tab, you can configure CDP and LLDP settings for the selected team. These advanced teaming features are disabled unless a valid Integrity Essentials - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 44
the NCU main window to apply the settings. Team Members are listed in order by Group ID and then by Team Member ID. Information about team members includes: • LAC - The name of the local area connection. • Port Type - NC model number of the port. • Bus/Slot/Port - The bus, slot, and port location of - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 45
- The system's VTP management domain name. This is used to verify VTP domain configuration in adjacent network nodes. • Native VLAN ID - The VLAN for untagged packets on the interface. CDP or LLDP learns the native VLAN for an interface. This is implemented only for interfaces that support the IEEE - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 46
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and only those ports in the multicast group. During a failover situation, the NCU maintains connectivity with the multicast group and responds with IGMP reports. The HP NCU supports IGMP in this release, but this support does not require any user input in the NCU; therefore, no windows or controls - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 48
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is attached to the server serial number, so a change in server name or IP address will not jeopardize the license. Using Virus Throttle Table 6-2 Using Virus Throttle Problem Possible Cause Possible Solution The Virus Throttle Status and Configuration utility Status tab indicates that "virus - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 50
is correct. • If using VLANs, ensure the correct VLAN is chosen for the Active Path VLAN ID on the VLAN Tab of the team. An NFT Preference Order Only This may be expected behavior based Open the Network Configuration Utility with Active Path Failover-enabled on the configured settings. (NCU) and - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 51
features (continued) Problem Possible Cause Possible Solution The Intelligent Networking Pack This may be expected behavior based Open the Network Configuration Utility license is installed but I cannot on the configured settings. (NCU) and check to see if the team enable Active Path Failover - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 52
feature is only available consider using CDPv2 instead. with CDPv2. The Discovery Protocol Settings This is expected behavior for group is disabled and I can't set the licensable features. CDP or LLDP. Install an Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack license key. 52 Troubleshooting - HP Rx2620-2 | HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack User Guide - Page 53
teaming driver attempted to register the CDP or LLDP multicast address with the miniport. This delay may have caused the team to fail to register the multicast address. When using SLB, 802.3ad, and Some network devices may only Map your network configuration using Dual-Channel teams some ports
HP Integrity Servers with Microsoft Windows
Server 2003
HP Integrity Essentials Intelligent Networking
Pack User Guide
HP Part Number: 5992-0904
Published: March 2007