HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)

• display whether the vPars flexible administrative capability feature is ON (enabled) or OFF
(disabled)
• change the flexible administrative capability password
• specify a virtual partition to be added or deleted to or from the designated-admin virtual
partition list
• list which virtual partitions are currently in the designated-admin virtual partition list (in
other words, are set as designated-admin virtual partitions)
Basic Syntax and Usage
vparadmin [-C] | [-a|-d partition_name] | [-l]
-C
• Changes the flexible administrative capability password. It will ask you for the existing
password before allowing you to change it.
-a|-d partition_name
• Adds or deletes a virtual partition to or from the designated-admin virtual partition list.
You will need to provide the flexible administrative capability password.
-l
• Lists all the virtual partitions that are currently in the designated-admin virtual partition
list. Use vparadmin -a to add virtual partitions to the list. Note that vparstatus does
not show any flexible administrative capability information.
Without any options
• displays whether the vPars flexible administrative capability is ON (enabled) or OFF
(disabled).
Persistence across vPars Monitor Reboots
If the flexible administrative capability mode is not changed from ON to OFF across vPars Monitor
reboots and the specific conditions are met (see below), the flexible administrative capability
mode will remain and the virtual partitions designated as designated-admin virtual partitions
will remain as designated-admin virtual partitions. In other words, the flexible administrative
capability mode and the designated-admin virtual partition list are persistent across vPars
Monitor reboots when the following conditions are met:
• the disk from which the vPars Monitor is booted is owned by a virtual partition when flexible
administrative capability changes are performed.
• the virtual partition in the above condition is up when flexible administrative capability
changes are made
These conditions are required because the vPars Monitor cannot perform a write into the vPars
database; only a running virtual partition can perform the write.
Therefore, persistence across vPars Monitor reboots will not be maintained under any of the
following conditions:
• The vPars Monitor boot disk is not owned by any of the virtual partitions or no virtual
partitions are rebooted from the same disk. In this case, the vPars database of the vPars
Monitor’s boot disk will not be updated.
• All virtual partitions are down such that any flexible administrative capability changes
cannot be written to the vPars database.
• The virtual partition whose boot disk is the disk from which the vPars Monitor is booted is
down when flexible administrative capability changes are made.
300 vPars Flexible Administrative Capability