Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.03.03)

Primary-Admin vPars Security (vPars A.03.03)
Persistence across Monitor Reboots
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Persistence across Monitor Reboots
If the security mode is not changed from ON to OFF across Monitor reboots and the specific conditions are
met (see below), the security mode will remain and the virtual partitions designated as primary-admin
virtual partitions will remain as primary-admin virtual partitions. In other words, the security mode and the
primary-admin virtual partition list are persistent across Monitor reboots when the following conditions are
met:
• the disk from which the Monitor is booted is owned by a virtual partition when security changes are
performed.
• the virtual partition in the above condition is up when security changes are made
These conditions are required because the Monitor cannot perform a write into the vPars database; only a
running virtual partition can perform the write.
Therefore, persistence across Monitor reboots will not be maintained under any of the following conditions:
• The Monitor boot disk is not owned by any of the virtual partitions or no virtual partitions are rebooted
from the same disk. In this case, the vPars database of the Monitor’s boot disk will not be updated.
• All virtual partitions are down such that any security changes cannot be written to the vPars database.
• The virtual partition whose boot disk is the disk from which the Monitor is booted is down when security
changes are made.