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NAME
vpardump - manage monitor dump files
SYNOPSIS
vpardump [-f|-i][-a
|-c|-q|-F][-v][vparmon[dumpfile]]
Platform Support Remarks
vpardump is not supported on systems with Onboard Administrator (OA) based partition manage-
ment.
DESCRIPTION
The
vpardump command is used to create (on PA-RISC systems only) and analyze a virtual partition
monitor dump file. vparmon is the image of the virtual partition monitor and dumpfile is the crash dump
file corresponding to that image.
vpardump is normally run from the vparinit
rc script to analyze a
crash dump during HP-UX boot. If no options are specified,
vpardump checks if the dumpfile has been
cleared. If not, it analyzes dumpfile and prints information about the crash to standard out. Then
vpardump marks the dumpfile as clear. If dumpfile is not specified, the string
.dmp is appended to
vparmon as in
/stand/vparmon.dmp.Ifvparmon is not specified, it defaults to
/stand/vpmon.
The dumpfile must exist prior to a vpar monitor crash. On PA-RISC systems, the
-i and
-f options
create the dumpfile on PA-RISC. If
-i is used, a dumpfile is created that is large enough to contain the
monitor image. If additional structures are required, such as I/O Page Directories, the
-f option is used
to reserve space for a full monitor crash dump. On Itanium-based systems, the monitor dumpfile is
created in the EFI partition of the monitor’s boot disk as needed. It is not necessary to pre-allocate a
dump file in
/stand. A monitor dump typically requires less than 75 megabytes of free space in the EFI
partition. In order to ensure that a complete crash dump can be saved, this much free space must be
maintained in the EFI partition.
Options
vpardump recognizes the following command-line options:
-a Analyze the dumpfile . This option can be used to force an analysis even if dumpfile has been
cleared.
-c Mark dumpfile as clear. No analysis is performed.
-F Analyze dumpfile even if the versions do not match.
-f Initialize dumpfile for a full dump. Supported only on PA-RISC systems.
-i Initialize dumpfile for a normal dump. Supported only on PA-RISC systems.
-q Do not analyze the dumpfile .
-v Enable verbose output.
The
-f, -i, and -q options are allowed on Itanium-based systems for compatibility. No action is taken
for the -f and -i options.
Operands
vpardump recognizes the following command-line operands:
vparmon The name of the image of the virtual partition monitor. If vparmon is not specified, it
defaults to
/stand/vpmon.
dumpfile The name of the crash dump file corresponding to the image of the virtual partion moni-
tor. If dumpfile is not specified, the string
.dmp is appended to vparmon as in
/stand/vparmon.dmp.
Security Restrictions
This command is restricted to processes owned by superuser or with the
DEVOPS privilege. See
privileges (5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges.
RETURN VALUE
vpardump returns the following values:
0 Analyzed dumpfile successfully.
1 Created a new dumpfile.
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