nPartition Administrator's Guide

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Remote management using the commands is supported as described in “Specifying Remote

Management Options to Commands” (page 249).

Table 1-3 nPartition Commands Releases

Enhanced nPartition CommandsOriginal nPartition Commands

• Support both local management and remote

management of nPartitions and complexes.

• Distributed with the HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) release.

Installed and supported for use on all systems that run

HP-UX 11i Version 3.

• Distributed with the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) release.

Installed and supported for use on all systems that run

HP-UX 11i Version 2.

• Distributed with the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) December

2004 release and later.

• Available for Windows (32-bit) and Windows (64-bit).

Distributed with the Smart Setup CD.

• Available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux

Enterprise Server. Distributed with the HP Integrity

Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux.

• Support only local management of nPartitions and

complexes.

• Were distributed with HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) releases

prior to the December 2004 release.

• Supported by HP-UX kernels built with nPartition

support enabled (the hd_fabric driver) and use the

libfab.1 library.

• Installed as part of the HP-UX 11i Version 1 operating

system installation prior to the December 2004 release.

Table 1-4 describes the nPartition configuration commands and lists sections where you can find

each command's syntax and details.

Table 1-4 nPartition Commands Descriptions

DescriptionCommand

Provide recommended configuration of the nPartition based on a set of Locality-Optimized

Resource Alignment (LORA) rules.

parconfig

Create a new nPartition; root or IPMI LAN access is required.

See “parcreate Command” (page 258).

parcreate

Modify an existing nPartition; root or IPMI LAN access is required.

See “parmodify Command” (page 261).

parmodify

Support online cell activation and de-activation.

parolrad

Remove an existing nPartition; root or IPMI LAN access is required.

See “parremove Command” (page 267).

parremove

Display nPartition information and hardware details for a server complex.

See “parstatus Command” (page 269).

parstatus

Unlock Complex Profile data (use this command with caution); root or IPMI LAN access

is required.

See “parunlock Command” (page 271).

parunlock

Blink the attention indicators (LEDs) or turn them off. This command can control these

indicators for cells, I/O chassis, and cabinet numbers.

See “fruled Command” (page 273).

fruled

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