network Failover in hpux 11 v1

[kuldeep saroha]

i am having one rp 7410 server with two network card of 1gbps and wants to do the fail over of network cards. how to do it please reply.
we can do it one two different speed card or both card shoud be same.

Regards
kuldeep

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

You have three options that I know of. 1 is free, the other two cost money.

1) Write a script to check the status of the main network connection. If it finds the main NIC card is down, it can configure the second connection with ifconfig commands. HP-UX most versions will not tolerate two NIC cars up at the same time on the same network.

2) Use Serviceguard to maintain the second NIC as a hot spare for the first card. Serviceguard licensing is normally around $1,000 or so per CPU plus support costs.

3) Use auto port aggregation (APA) to maintain the two NIC cards as a sort of bonded cluster. The cost of APA is about the same as serviceguard.

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[kuldeep saroha]

means i have to write a cron entry which will check the status of nic and and will if found fail. it will active the another one.

thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

Possible source for a great deal of useful scripts.

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=178514

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[kuldeep saroha]

thanks a lot for all inputs.