HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

5 vPars Monitor and Shell Commands..........................................................123
Notes on Examples in this Chapter.........................................................................................123
Syntax of Example Commands..........................................................................................123
Example Server...............................................................................................................124
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity
Only)IntegritymodesvparenvvparconfigparconfigrebootcommandsHP-UX shell commandsvparenv....124
Modes...........................................................................................................................124
Commands to Set the Mode..............................................................................................124
Differences Between vparconfig and parconfig................................................................126
Usage Scenarios..............................................................................................................126
EFI Boot Disk Paths, including Disk Mirrors, and vparefiutil (Integrity
Only)IntegrityEFIvparefiutilMirror-UXEFI paths...........................................................................128
vPars Monitor: Booting the vPars Monitor.................................................................................132
vPars Monitor: Accessing the vPars Monitor Prompt...................................................................132
vPars Monitor: Using vPars Monitor Commands........................................................................133
Booting..........................................................................................................................133
Displaying Information......................................................................................................136
vPars Monitor: Using the vPars Monitor Commands from ISL or EFI..............................................137
Commands: vPars Manpages.................................................................................................138
Commands: vPars Commands Logging....................................................................................138
Log File Location and Log Format.......................................................................................138
Cases Where No Logging Occurs......................................................................................139
Cases Where Logging Occurs...........................................................................................139
Constraints and Restrictions to Logging...............................................................................139
Syslog and Priority and Facility Codes................................................................................139
Commands: Displaying vPars Monitor and Resource Information (vparstatus)partitionsobtaining
information aboutvirtual partitionsstatescommandsHP-UX shell commandsvparstatusvparstatus.........140
Virtual Partition States.......................................................................................................140
vparstatus Output Examples..............................................................................................140
vparstatus: Summary Information.......................................................................................141
vparstatus: Verbose Information.........................................................................................142
vparstatus: Available Resources.........................................................................................144
vparstatus: CPU Information on vPars A.04/A.05.................................................................145
vparstatus: Dual-Core CPUsCPUdual-core............................................................................147
vparstatus: Pending Migrating CPUs Operations..................................................................147
vparstatus: Pending Migrating Memory Operations..............................................................148
vparstatus: Base and Float Memory Amounts.......................................................................149
vparstatus: Pending nPartition Reboot for Reconfiguration......................................................149
vparstatus: vPars Monitor and Database Information.............................................................150
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition....................................................................................150
Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition...................................................................................151
Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition................................................................152
Booting a Virtual Partition......................................................................................................153
Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition..........................................................................153
When to Shutdown All Virtual Partitions..............................................................................154
Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (Or Rebooting the vPars Monitor).................................154
Setboot and System-wide Stable Storage .................................................................................156
Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths...................................................................................156
Autoboot and Autosearch Attributes....................................................................................157
Setting the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths..........................................................................157
Using Primary and Alternate Paths with nPartitions................................................................158
Original Status:...........................................................................................................158
Changing the Virtual Partition’s Path (vPars Partition Database)..........................................159
Changing the nPartition’s Path (Complex Profile Data)......................................................159
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