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The value of Service Partition displays the name of the service partition if one has been
allocated. In our example, we have not yet created a partition, so a service partition has be
assigned. A service partition is an i5/OS partition that has been designated to report and
monitor errors when the HMC undergoing maintenance or is not available. If there are
updates that affect the service processor, they will be in the form of MHxxxx PFTs. If your
HMC is not available and you want to apply these PTFs, you must use the ASM interface to
change the update policy from HMC managed to i5/OS managed. On an System i5 system
only, an i5/OS partition can be a Service Partition. On a p5 server, either an AIX or a Linux
partition can be a service partition.
The Power Off policy check box does exactly what it says. If checked, the server will power
down after all the partitions are powered off. See Figure 3-21.
Figure 3-21 Managed system - General properties
Some of the information is obvious, but the Service processor version and service partition
are new concepts. Depending on the model of the ^, the four capabilities will be listed
in the bottom pane and may be true or false. The four capabilities are:
򐂰 CoD capable. True if the managed system has capacity upgrade on demand capabilities.
򐂰 OS400 capable. True when the managed server is capable of running OS400:
– Processor capable. True when the managed server has CoD enabled and processors
are available.
– Memory capable. True when the managed system has CoD enabled and memory is
available.