HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

General System Administration
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vPar Provider
The HP-UX vPar Provider is a HP-UX WBEM services provider introduced in the HP-
UX 11i v1 release for extracting information about virtual partitions on a system. As it is
a read-only provider, clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations. This
provider can be used through a Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) interface.
The vPar Provider always gets the data from the default virtual partition database
located at /stand/vpdb or from the database from which virtual partitions are booted.
The vPar Provider talks to the nPar Provider to get information of I/O assigned to virtual
partitions and to determine whether or not it is running on an nPar. If the nPar Provider
is down, it will not provide this information. The vPar Provider uses the namespace
root/cimv2/vpar.
The vPar Provider library and Managed Object Format (mof) files are stored under
/opt/vparprovider/lib and /opt/vparprovider/mof directories, respectively. The
vPar Provider is delivered as a library
(/opt/vparprovider/lib/libHPVParProvider.1) through the vParProvider bundle. It
depends on the HP WBEM Services product. This release of vPar Provider is supported
on all HP server systems that support HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars).
Summary of Change
The bundle name of the product has been changed from vparprovider to vParProvider.
Impact
There are no known impacts other than those previously described.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
The vPar Provider Release Notes can be found at http://docs.hp.com. In addition, the
/opt/vparprovider/doc directory contains the vPar Provider Release Notes and data
sheet.
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
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