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Procedures for Managing nPartitions
Naming and Renaming nPartitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Naming and Renaming nPartitions
Each nPartition has both a partition number and a partition name.
The partition name for each nPartition can have from 1 to 64
characters, including upper- and lowercase letters; numbers; and dashes,
underscores, and spaces (“-” “_” and “ ”).
You can customize each partition’s name to help you distinguish among
the nPartition in a server complex. (You cannot change the partition
number, which is a permanent unique identifier that is automatically
assigned for each nPartition in a server complex.)
You can name and rename nPartitions using these methods:
• BCH on page 230
This procedure (Configuration menu, PD command) checks and sets
the local partition’s name from the BCH interface.
• HP-UX Commands on page 231
This procedure (parmodify -p# -P name) sets the partition name for
nPartitions using HP-UX commands.
• Partition Manager on page 232
This procedure (Partition —> Modify Partition action, General tab)
names and renames nPartitions using Partition Manager.
Partition names are displayed (along with partition numbers) in various
reports and menus provided by the service processor, Boot Console
Handler (BCH), and the HP-UX partition tools. Note that some utilities
display only the first 30 characters of partition names.
BCH This procedure (Configuration menu, PD command) checks and sets the
local partition’s name from the BCH interface.
Step 1. Log in to the service processor for the server complex in which the
nPartition resides.
Step 2. Access the partition’s console.
From the service processor Main menu, enter CO to access the console
menu and select the partition.
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