Enhanced NPartition Commands Version A.01.02 Release Notes

What’s in This Version

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What’s in This Version

The Enhanced NPartition Commands product has the following new features in this

version:

• The enhanced version of the nPartition commands are available in the /usr/lib/npar

directory. On executing any nPartition commands from the /usr/sbin directory, the

enhanced nPartition commands are invoked if they are present on the HP-UX system, and

if the nPartition Provider (NPar) product is installed. This functionality is available

only if the patch PHCO_ 31878 is installed on the HP-UX system.

• The cplxmodify command is newly introduced in HP-UX 11i v1 release to modify an

attribute of a system complex.

• The Enhanced NPartition Commands are WBEM clients, which provide remote

management capabilities.

• Remote management of a complex directly through the management processor is enabled

using the -g option.

• Remote management of nPartitions is enabled using the -u option. The server security

certiﬁcate on the remote host machine must be copied to the client certiﬁcate store on the

local system. The server security certiﬁcate is stored in the ﬁle

/etc/opt/hp/sslshare/cert.pem or /var/opt/wbem/server.pem.

• The client Trust Store ﬁle location for nPartition commands has been changed from the

/var/opt/wbem/client.pem ﬁle to /opt/nparcmds/nparcmds.pem ﬁle. Also, the

permission for this ﬁle must be set to 555 for security reasons and the ownership must be

set to bin:bin.

• The user or IPMI password cannot be speciﬁed in the command line to manage remote

partitions.

• If the -k option is speciﬁed with the parcreate(1M), parmodify(1M) or parremove(1M)

commands, then the enhanced nPartition commands are not invoked.

Further Information

Online version of technical documentation is available at the following location:

http://docs.hp.com/