Patent ID: 8291050

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code to output for display one or more screens for configuring a logical partition (LPAR) having allocated resources residing on a server computer, the one or more screens comprising: a shared network adapter (SNA) selection element indicating a selected SNA ID, wherein the SNA selection element is configured to display a plurality of available SNA IDs and to receive a user selection of one of the plurality of available SNA IDs, wherein each of the plurality of SNA IDs uniquely identifies a respective SNA installed on the server computer; a physical port selection element configured for user-selection of a physical port ID from one or more physical port IDs each corresponding to a respective physical port, wherein the one or more physical port IDs uniquely identify all physical ports residing on the respective SNA for the selected SNA ID; and an active configure button which, when selected by a user, causes one or more screens for configuring a logical shared adapter (LSA) associated with the respective SNA to be output for display, wherein the LSA manages the sending and receiving of network traffic by the LPAR through the SNA on the respective one or more physical ports corresponding to the selected one or more physical port IDs.