Installing Network Card

[cchiang12]

We need to install network card to our AIX (OS 5.3) machine.
We are on the assumption of just plug those cards in and run cfgmgr.

But the IBM reps are saying we need to run LPAR also?

Just a bit confused... I did some research on the web but didn't find anything useful, can someone point me to the right direction?

Thank you

 

[hfaix]

What model and type of server are you running? Is this an additional or a replacement NIC? This should help.

 

[cchiang12]

we are on AIX p670. 5.3 for the operating system.
I guess cfgmgr will be step 1..
If I am going to use all 4 as full adapter cards (not sharing them), I would allocate adapter cards(via HMC) as needed to each LPAR.
But how do I config the LPAR?

 

[khalidaaa]

In my case i had a p570 and a requirement raised to add an FC adapter so i had first to add the empty slot to an LPAR's profile, reboot the LPAR and go to the diagnostic then add the PCI (or something like that) and then continue booting and that's it! it was there working.

Regards,
Khalid

 

[cchiang12]

How did you config the LPAR? do you go through SMIT or HMC?
I have no idea how to config LPAR...

 

[hfaix]

This is probably a bad example, because I've never done lparing with power4 (which your 670 is).

However in power5, you would add the resource to the server and do the lpar operations through the HMC. The profile of the running partition would have to be assigned the slot of the new device, and the partition would need shutdown and then booted (but not just a reboot). Unfortunately the power down is required because you can't dynamic lpar if the profile of the running partition wasn't defined with this device as "desired".

good luck...