HPE NonStop TCP/IP System Management

This 5-day course provides the knowledge and skills needed to incorporate the HPE NonStop servers into your TCP/IP environment and perform system configuration. Upon completion of the course, you will be familiar with the products and utilities that allow you to configure, monitor, modify, and control your system.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Conventional TCP/IP
• Cluster I/O Protocols (CIP) and Cluster I/O Module (CLIMs)
• TCP/IPv6
• ServerNet LAN Systems Access (SLSA) Subsystem
• Expand-over-IP 

• System Managers 
• Network Managers 
• System Analysts 
• Network technical support personnel 

• NonStop NS-series Server Administration I (U8528S) or
• HPE NonStop NS2100/NS2200 Server Administration I (HH673S) and familiarity with TCP/IP or
• NonStop S-series Field Support Training (U4170S) or
• HPE NonStop NB-Series Server Administration I (HG776S) and
• Six months experience managing NonStop servers

TCP/IP Refresher 

• History of protocol suite
• Four protocol layers
• Terminology
• IP and ICMP basics
• TCP basics
• UDP basics
• IPv4 vs IPv6
• Pv4 addressing
• IPv6 addressing
• Subnetting in IPv4 and IPv6
• Basics of ARP, DHCP, and DNS
• TCP/IP applications Learning Check LAB: TCP/IP Utilities on Windows® 

TCP/IP on NonStop

• Three TCP/IP subsystems
• Process-based vs library-based protocol stack
• SLSA (IOAME and VIO), adapters, and CLIMs
• Conventional TCP/IP implementation and supported protocols
• TCP/IPv6 implementation and features
• CIP implementation and features
• SCF interface
• TCP/IP and OSS Learning Check LAB: TCP/IP Utilities on NonStop 

Configuring Conventional TCP/IP

• Key subsystem processes: TCPIP, Listner, Telserv, Echo, Finger, FTP, ping
• Key files: hosts, services, resconf, portconf, protocol
• Defines and Params
• Starting the TCPIP process
• Starting the Listner and Telserv processes
• Telserv services and windows
• Configuring and starting a subnet
• Types of routes
• Adding and starting routes
• Verifying the configuration
• TCP/IP configuration for OSS, including inetd
• Problems and troubleshooting Learning Check LAB: Configuring a conventional TCP/IP Subsystem 

The CIP Subsystem

• Linux®-based components
• NS-based components
• Types of CLIMs supported
• CLIM naming conventions
• Protocols supported
• PROVIDER object and relationship to CLIMs
• Routing
• SCF interface
• climcmd utility
• Partitioning, including changed granularity with J06.14
• Failover
• RR filtering Learning Check LAB: Exploring the CIP Subsystem with SCF and CLIMCMD 

Basic CIP/CLIM Configuration

• How to check on CIP subsystem status
• How to add, configure, and start a CLIM interface
• How to add and start a default route
• How to start the Listner and Telserv processes
• How to display network connections
• How to modify, stop, and delete an interface Learning Check LAB #1: Basic CIP/CLIM Configuration 

CIP/CLIM Configuration Options

• How to configure intra-CLIM failover
• How to configure CLIM-to-CLIM failover
• Network partitioning with MULTIPROV OFF
• Network partitioning with MULTIPROV ON
• How to achieve scalability with round-robin filtering Learning Check LAB #2: CIP/CLIM Configuration Options 

Basic TCP/IPv6 Configuration

• The structure of the TCP/IPv6 subsystem
• SCF syntax in the TCP/IPv6 context
• How to configure and start an IPv4 subnet
• How to configure and start a route
• The concept of ephemeral ports and how to configure them Learning Check 

TCP/IPv6 Configuration Options

• How to configure Logical Network Partitioning (LNP)
• How to configure round-robin filtering
• How to configure Ethernet failover with shared IP
• How to configure Ethernet failover with nonshared IP Lab#1 TCP/IPv6 configuration options 

Configuring IPv6 with TCP/IPv6

• The different operating modes of TCP/IPv6: INET, DUAL, and INET6
• How to add an INET subnet
• How to add a DUAL subnet
• How to add an INET6 subnet
• The difference between automatic and configured tunnels
• How to display TCP/IPv6 connections
• The roles of the IPNODES file and the ND6HOSTD process Lab #2—Configuring IPv6 

Configuring Expand-over-IP

• Expand basics (no details)
• Expand-over-IP line handler
• Adding the line and path
• Starting the line and path
• Verifying the configuration
• Problems and troubleshooting Learning Check LAB: Expand-over-IP Configuration