HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

General System Administration
HP Partitioning
Chapter 4
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Obsolescence
Not applicable.
HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands
The HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands are a set of system administration
commands to create/modify/remove partitions, control power to cells and I/O chassis,
flash/turn off attention LEDs for cells, cabinets and I/O chassis, and display information
about a hardware partitionable complex.
The command line interface for nPartition configuration consists of the following
commands:
• cplxmodify (1M)
• fruled (1)
• frupower (1M)
• parcreate (1M)
• parmodify (1M)
• parremove (1M)
• parstatus (1)
• parunlock (1M)
Summary of Change
In HP-UX 11i v1.0, the nPartition configuration commands only support operations on a
single hardware complex of a PA-RISC partitionable platform. They will not work on an
Itanium-based partitionable platform due to architectural and design changes in the
software stack required by the command. In addition, they cannot be used to manage
hard partitions on a remote complex (a complex other than the one they run on).
With HP-UX 11i v2, the management scope of the nPartition configuration commands
has now been extended to remote partitions and complexes, including support for remote
management and cell local memory. The nPartition configuration commands will
provide the same partition management functionality on partitionable Itanium-based
and PA-RISC hardware platforms and will also allow support of remote management
and cell local memory.
For HP-UX 11i v2, the HP-UX nPartition configuration commands have been enhanced
to support Itanium-based systems. They have also been enhanced to support the
following new features:
• Set/modify complex attributes:
— A new nPartition configuration command (cplxmodify)
— Modifies attributes of the complex of a partitionable system
— For HP-UX 11i v2, the only modifiable attribute is the complex name (-N
option).
• Remote partition and complex management:
— nPartition configuration commands have been enhanced to manage remote
(non-local) partitions and complexes, with appropriate authorization.
— New options (-u, -g and -h) have been added to support remote management: