After working with ProCurve switches for a while, I figured I would post my general configuration for others to use as a template. This configuration will be a simple setup with two VLAN's, please replace IP addreses and VLAN ID's with what fits your environment:
hostname HP-PROCURVE-CORE
time timezone -480
time daylight-time-rule Continental-US-and-Canada
sntp server priority 1 128.138.140.Coming from a Cisco QoS background, I wanted to get a good grasp on HP QoS with the ProCurve switches, but there isn't much information out there (besides the Advanced Traffic Management Guide by HP). This post should should consolidate some of that information, and is based on the the Advanced Traffic Management Guide, various vendor HP interopability guides, and
To run OSPF on HP Procurve switches, you will most likely need the "Premium" software license. Once you have that, configuring OSPF is fairly easy, although different from the Cisco approach:
For example, I want to enable OSPF in area 0 on my HP core switch (HP 5406):
(config)#router ospf
To create a LACP trunk on an HP 2910 switch, follow these commands:
On both switches:
trunk 25-26 trk1 lacp