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

Booting and Resetting Superdome Partitions
Overview of Partition Booting Concepts and Issues
Chapter 5 229
Partition and Cell Boot States and Activities
Using a partition’s Virtual Front Panel, you can view details about
partition and cells boot states and activities. From the GSP main menu,
select the VFP menu for Virtual Front Panel options.
You can view a Virtual Front Panel for a specific partition that includes
details for all cells in the partition, as shown below.
You also can view a system-wide VFP, which shows a summary of each
partition’s current state and its activity.
See “Monitoring Partition Boot Activity” on page 242 for details on
accessing a partition VFP or system-wide VFP. The following table
presents the partition and cell states and activities that you can observe
from a partition’s Virtual Front Panel.
Note that inactive cells remain at a “Boot Is Blocked (BIB)” state
following I/O discovery and do not participate in partition rendezvous.
E indicates error since last boot
Partition 1 state Activity
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Cell(s) Booting: 192 Logs
# Cell state Activity
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4 Early CPU selftest Cell firmware test 95 Logs
6 Early CPU selftest Cell firmware test 95 Logs
GSP:VFP (^B to Quit) >
Table 5-2 Superdome Partition and Cell Boot States and Activities
Partition State Partition Activity Cell States Cell Activities
Cell(s) Booting Booting Cell firmware
configuration,
Cell firmware test,
Cell PDH controller
configuration
Cell(s) Booting Early CPU self-test Processor test,
Cell firmware test,
Processor firmware
slave rendezvous
Cell(s) Booting Memory discovery Physical memory test