Configuring Remote Network Connectivity Using SAM

This section describes how to configure remote connectivity using SAM. The procedure involves the following two steps:

Step 1: Configuring network connectivity
Step 2: Deleting a default gateway (optional)

Step 1:

Configure Network Connectivity

Your system may not be able to communicate with other systems, for example, PCs, workstations, servers and other hardware, until you configure system-to-system connections by adding an entry in /etc/hosts for the remote system. You can use SAM to do this automatically by completing the following steps:

At the HP-UX prompt, enter sam
Double-click Networking and Communications at the SAM main window.
Double-click Hosts and then double-click Local Hosts File to enable your system to communicate with other systems using the TCP/IP protocol.
SAM displays the remote system names and Internet addresses that are already configured.
Choose Add from the Actions menu to open the AddHost to File window to add the Internet address and system name of a remote system.
Use the SAM online help system for information about adding remote system connections:
1. Enter the Internet address for the remote system.
  Upon exiting the Internet Address field, SAM checks to make sure you have entered a valid IP/Internet address. SAM also determines if a gateway is required for the connection (see 4c).
2. Enter the remote system name.
  Upon exiting the Remote System Name field, SAM checks to make sure that connectivity has not already been configured for this system. If it has, SAM displays an error message.
3. Optionally, choose Add Aliases to open the Add Aliases window if you want to configure aliases for a remote system.
  You can modify or remove alias names for a remote system on this menu.
  Click the OK button to perform the task and return to the Add Internet Addresses window.
  Proceed to step 5 if a gateway is not required for this remote connection.
  SAM displays fields for entering gateway information if a gateway is required for this remote system connection. Use the SAM online help system for information about gateways.

Click the OK button to enable your system to communicate with this system and return to the System-to-System Connectivity object list.

SAM updates the object list to include the remote system you configured.




	NOTE: You can modify or remove remote systems and modify default gateways by highlighting the Remote System Name from the object list and choosing Modify, Remove, or Modify Default Gateway from the Actions menu.

Choose Exit from the File menu.
At the Networking Communications window, choose Exit SAM from the File menu to leave SAM.
Verify remote system configuration:
1. View the list of remote systems you can communicate with using a symbolic name by entering the following command at the HP-UX prompt:
  $ more /etc/hosts
2. View the configured destinations reached through gateways and the gateways used to reach those destinations by entering the following command at the HP-UX prompt:
  $ netstat -r

Step 2:

Deleting a default gateway

To delete a default gateway that you have added with SAM, follow these steps:

Enter the following command at the HP-UX prompt:
$ route delete default gateway_hostname
In this command, gateway_hostname is the host name of the default gateway you want to delete.
Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file to remove the corresponding Internet routing configuration parameter values for the gateway. For example:
ROUTE_DESTINATION [0] =
ROUTE_GATEWAY [0] =
ROUTE_COUNT [0] =

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