Using the BUI to Configure Networking

To ensure that you maintain your browser connection while you make network configuration changes, assign a particular IP address and network device for administrative use as described in Configuring Management Interfaces.

The Configuration: Network: Configuration page lists devices, datalinks, and interfaces. The Devices list shows link status on the right, and shows an icon next to the device name that indicates the state of the network port. If one of these icons shows that the device is down (see the following table), check that the device is plugged into the network properly.

Some configuration can be performed by dragging and dropping a device entry onto the datalinks column or a datalink entry onto the interfaces column. This can be helpful for complex configurations. Valid moves are highlighted.

The Configuration: Network: Addresses page lists the interface name, IP address, and hostname for each datalink.

The Configuration: Network: Routing page provides the following:

Shows the multihoming model: Loose, Adaptive, or Strict
Shows the destination, gateway, family, type, status, and interface for each route
Provides the ability to add a static route

The following table shows icons that are used in network configuration.

Table 2-5 Network Configuration Icons

Icon	Description
$I\image showing the active network device (lights off) icon$	Connected network port
	Connected network port with I/O activity
	Disconnected network port (link down, cable problem)
	Active InfiniBand port
	Active InfiniBand port with I/O activity
	Inactive InfiniBand port (down, init, or arm state)
	InfiniBand partition device is up
	InfiniBand partition device is down (subnet manager problem)
	Network datalink
	Network datalink VLAN or VNIC
	Network datalink aggregation
	Network datalink aggregation VLAN or VNIC
	Network datalink IB partition
	Interface is being used to send and receive packets (either up or degraded)
	Interface has been disabled by the user
	Interface is offline (owned by the cluster peer)
	Interface has failed or has been configured with a duplicate IP address