HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.02)

vPars Flexible Administrative Capability (vPars A.03.03, A.03.04, vPars A.04.02, A.04.03, A.05.01)
Persistence across Monitor Reboots
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Persistence across Monitor Reboots
If the flexible administrative capability mode is not changed from ON to OFF across 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 Monitor reboots when the following conditions are met:
• the disk from which the 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 Monitor cannot perform a write into the vPars database; only a
running virtual partition can perform the write.
Therefore, persistence across Monitor reboots will not be maintained under any of the following conditions:
• The 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 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 Monitor is booted is down when flexible
administrative capability changes are made.