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Introduction to nPartitions
Tools for Managing Partitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Boot Console
Handler (BCH)
interface
The BCH interface is the method for interacting with a partition
before it has booted HP-UX. Each partition’s BCH interface provides
menus for configuring partition settings and booting HP-UX.
• Availability—Using a partition’s BCH interface requires accessing
the partition’s console through the service processor Console
menu.
• Features—Allows you to select which device and which HP-UX
kernel is booted, to configure the boot actions for devices, and to
software-deallocate CPUs, memory, and cells.
• Tasks Supported—Configuring and managing the HP-UX boot
process, getting partition-specific information, resetting the local
partition, configuring various partition settings.
HP-UX nPartition
Configuration
Commands
The HP-UX nPartition configuration commands allow you to
configure, modify, and monitor partitions and hardware within a
server complex.
The commands include parcreate, parmodify, parstatus,
parremove, parunlock, fruled, and frupower.
• Availability—Using the HP-UX nPartition configuration
commands requires logging in to HP-UX running on a partition.
All users can issue the parstatus and fruled commands, but all
other commands require root user permissions.
• Features—These commands allow you to manage partitions and
hardware when HP-UX is in single– or multi-user mode and when
you are logged in with text-only terminal access.
• Tasks Supported—Configuring, modifying, and getting
information about nPartitions and hardware within a server
complex.
Table 2-1 HP nPartition Management Tools
Partition Tool Features and Restrictions
HP Restricted / DRAFT
DRAFT NOV 2001