Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Conﬁguring and Managing Superdome Partitions

The Partition Manager—A Guided Tour

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The Partition Manager—A Guided Tour

The Partition Manager provides a graphical user interface for

conﬁguringpartitions (and other resources) in your Superdome complex.

Patterned after a commonly used PC-based ﬁle exploration utility, the

Partition Manager (also known as parmgr) is easy to learn and use.

NOTE The Partition Manager is equipped with an extensive help system that

describes the rich set of navigational tools more extensively than what is

covered here. This section is intended to help you start-up the Partition

Manager, and show you the basic areas that Partition Manager covers.

Advantages of Using The Partition Manager

There are a variety of tools that can be used to conﬁgure the partitions in

a Superdome complex, each having its own advantages over the others.

Which tool is best to use for a given task depends on how comfortable you

are with using the tool, and the speciﬁc task you are trying to do. The

Partition Manager has the following advantages over the other tools:

• It is a graphical user interface that can be run from any X-Terminal

or from a Web browser

• It has a built-in set of problem detectors to help you quickly ﬁgure out

the source of a problem in your complex.

• It has a robust set of error checks to help prevent you from creating

illegal conﬁgurations or performing steps of a task in the wrong order.

• It prevents you from having to learn or remember many different

HP-UX commands and their options.

• It is organized around the very objects that you will be conﬁguring:

— Cells

— I/O Chassis

— Partitions

— Available (not yet conﬁgured) Resources