Windows nPartition Guide v5.5
Table Of Contents
- nPartition Administrator's Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Quick Start
- Getting to know nPartitions
- Choosing a management tool
- Management interface options
- Choosing a management mode
- Setting up the management station
- Performing nPartition management tasks
- 2 Installing nPartition Management Utilities
- 3 Using Partition Manager
- 4 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions
- Complex-level tasks
- nPartition-level tasks
- Boot configuration options for nPartition systems
- Find bootable devices
- List nPartition configurations
- List the local (current) nPartition number
- List memory configurations
- Configure boot paths and options
- Configure autoboot options
- Configure boot-time system tests
- Boot Windows Server 2003
- Boot over a network
- Shut down Windows Server 2003
- Reboot and reset
- Reboot for reconfiguration
- Shut down to a shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state
- Boot an inactive nPartition
- Perform a transfer of control reset
- Create a Genesis Partition
- Create a new nPartition
- Remove (delete) an nPartition
- Add cells to an nPartition
- Set core cell choices
- Rename an nPartition
- Cell-level tasks
- Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks
- List input/output (I/O) configurations
- List cabinets in a server complex
- List power status and power supplies
- List fan and blower status
- Turn attention indicators (LEDs) on and off
- Power server cabinets on and off
- Power cells and I/O chassis on and off
- Configure and deconfigure cells
- Configure and deconfigure processors (CPUs)
- Configure and deconfigure memory (DIMMs)
- 5 nPartition Commands Reference
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Installation problems
- Checking component installation and operation
- Operational problems
- All commands: ordinal not found
- All commands: required data unavailable or locked
- Fruled: LED error messages (mid-range servers only)
- Frupower: cannot power off error
- Parcreate and parmodify: cell local memory warnings
- Parcreate, parmodify, and parremove: failure to update stable complex configuration data (SCCD)
- Parremove: shutdown and reset instructions
- Parstatus -c -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus -p -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus: local partition error
- Parstatus: unable to get read lock error
- Using WMIOP.EXE to pinpoint problems
- Error messages and corrective actions
- Index
If the clm value is rounded, the command reports the final value used.
4. Reboot the nPartition to use the cells’ new attribute values.
If you have changed cell local memory (CLM) values then you must reboot the nPartition
whose CLM values have changed. If you also are changing use-on-next-boot values then
also use the following guidelines.
If you have changed any cell use-on-next-boot settings for the nPartition then reboot the
nPartition in either of two ways:
• To perform a standard reboot use the Windows shutdown /r command (or select
Start > Shut Down and then Restart in the pull-down menu).
If you have only changed use-on-next-boot values from y to n, then perform a reboot.
Any cells set to not be used will still be assigned to the nPartition but will not be used
(will not rendezvous) in the nPartition.
• To perform a reboot for reconfig use the Windows shutdown /r command (or select
Start > Shut Down and then Restart in the pull-down menu).
If you have changed any use-on-next-boot values from n (do not use on next boot) to y
(use the cell on next boot), then you must perform a reboot for reconfig to allow the
currently inactive cells to reboot and rendezvous when the nPartition reboots.
Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks
The following section describes tasks you can perform to manage or view the status of I/O
components or other hardware within the complex, or individual nPartitions, or individual cells.
List input/output (I/O) configurations
nPartition input/output (I/O) configuration details include the I/O chassis population,
cell-to-chassis connections, PCI card slot capabilities, and PCI card details.
List I/O configurations using the following procedure:
Procedure 4-39 Listing input/output (I/O) configurations [nPartition commands]
From the command line, use the parstatus -I command to list details about all I/O chassis
in the server complex.
1. Log in to Windows on the management station PC.
To list details about the cards and slots in an I/O chassis you must log in to the nPartition
to which the cell connected to the I/O chassis is assigned. If using the parstatus -I
command you can log in to any nPartition in the complex or remotely list details from
Windows.
78 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions