HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.03)

Also, when a virtual partition is booted, there may be a pause in the console output.
For more information, see “Booting a Virtual Partition” (page 156).
Finally, when there is a pending Reboot for Reconfiguration for the involved nPartition,
the target virtual partitions will not be booted until all the virtual partitions within the
nPartition have been shut down and the vPars Monitor rebooted. For more information
see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (Or Rebooting the vPars Monitor)”
(page 158).
• bootpath displays the device from which the vPars Monitor (/stand/vpmon) was booted
Example:
MON>bootpath
disk(0.0.2.0.6.0)
• reboot [mode] reboots the entire hard partition. Other hard partitions are not affected.
mode sets the mode for the next reboot and has the value of either nPars or vPars. This is
applicable on only Integrity systems.
NOTE: You should shut down each virtual partition (using the Unix shutdown command)
prior to executing the vPars Monitor reboot command. A confirmation prompt is provided,
but if you accept confirmation of the reboot while any virtual partitions are running, the
reboot brings the running partitions down ungracefully. For more information, see “Shutting
Down or Rebooting the nPartition (Or Rebooting the vPars Monitor)” (page 158).
Displaying Information
• cat filename [openonly] displays the contents of filename. When openonly is
specified, this command only prints "open succeeded" if the vPars Monitor was able to
open the filename. This command is similar to the Unix cat command.
filename must be a text file on an HFS file system.
/stand is the default directory
Example:
— To display the file /stand/notes.txt
MON> cat notes.txt
10/13/2001: built new kernel today. if problems arise, revert to saved kernel vmunix.original
• cbufpartition_name displays the contents of the console buffer of partition_name
• clear_pending clears a pending Reboot for Reconfiguration. If there is a pending
Reboot for Reconfiguration within the nPartition, no virtual partitions can be rebooted until
all the virtual partitions within the given nPartition are shut down and the involved vPars
Monitor is rebooted. If Reboot for Reconfiguration has been set in error, the clear_pending
command clears it, enabling virtual partition boots.
• help help or ? lists all vPars Monitor commands
• lifls lists the files in the LIF area
• getauto displays the contents of the AUTO file in the LIF area
Example:
— MON> getauto
hpux /stand/vpmon
• log displays the contents, including warning and error messages, of the vPars Monitor
log. The vPars Monitor log holds up to 16 KB of information in a circular log buffer. The
information is displayed in chronological order.
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