HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

Example HP-UX Shell Scenario (vparadmin)
Below describes examples that include (from the HP-UX shell):
• a command successfully executed
• a command not executed due to the flexible administrative capability feature
• adding a virtual partition to the designated-admin virtual partition list
• deleting a virtual partition from the designated-admin virtual partition list
• listing the virtual partitions in the designated-admin virtual partition list
• changing the flexible administrative capability password
• determining whether you are in flexible administrative capability
For this section, let’s assume we have the virtual partitions winona1, winona2, and winona3.
A Command Successfully Executed
Because winona1 is in the designated-admin virtual partition list. We can execute a command
from winona1 that alters winona2:
winona1# vparmodify -p winona2 -a cpu::1
Note that you will not see any flexible administrative capability messages when flexible
administrative capability is allowed; you will only see flexible administrative capability messages
when access is denied.
A Command Not Executed Due to the Flexible Administrative Capability Feature
However, because winona2 is not in the designated-admin virtual partition list. We cannot
successfully execute a command from winona2 that alters another partition:
winona2# vparmodify -p winona1 -a cpu::1
vparmodify: Error: Only Designated-Admin virtual partitions can perform this operation on winona1.
winona2# vparmodify -p winona3 -a cpu::1
vparmodify: Error: Only Designated-Admin virtual partitions can perform this operation on winona3.
Note that if the target partition is the local virtual partition, then the partition is only altering itself
and not altering another partition, so this will be allowed.
winona2# vparmodify -p winona2 -a cpu::1
Adding a Virtual Partition to the Designated-admin Virtual Partition List
If we want the non-designated-admin virtual partition winona2 to be able to alter other virtual
partitions, we need to add it to the designated-admin virtual partition list. This can be done from
any virtual partition, but you will need to know the flexible administrative capability password.
winona2# vparadmin -a winona2
password:
Virtual partition winona2 is added to the Designated-Admin virtual partitions list.
Deleting a Virtual Partition to the Designated-admin Virtual Partition List
If later we want to remove winona2 from the designated-admin virtual partition list, we can do this
from any virtual partition:
winona1# vparadmin -d winona2
Password:
Virtual partition winona2 is deleted from the Designated-Admin virtual partitions list.
Listing the Virtual Partitions in the Designated-admin Virtual Partition List
We can verify that winona2 has been removed from the designated-admin virtual partition list.
This can be performed from any partition.
Example HP-UX Shell Scenario (vparadmin) 275