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

Planning Superdome Configurations
Building Blocks and Definitions
Appendix A 293
• Stable complex configuration information (Group A), including:
❏ Attributes of the complex (its name, model number, serial number,
etc)
❏ cell-to-partition assignments and unassigned cells
❏ XBC connections
❏ other complex-wide information
• Dynamic complex configuration information (Group B).
Complex profile revision information, used to make sure that all cells
and partitions have the same information about the configuration of
the complex.
• Partition configuration information (Group C), including:
❏ Partition name
❏ Partition number
❏ IP address
❏ Primary boot path
❏ Alternate boot path and High Availability alternate boot path (see
“Paths to boot and root disk” on page 339)
❏ Boot timer
❏ KGM (Known Good Memory)
❏ Autostart and other flags
❏ Console and keyboard paths
❏ Core cell selection table
❏ “Use on boot” flag for each cell, indicating whether or not each of
the partition’s cells will be activated next time the partition boots.
The default is to activate the cell.
❏ “Failure policy” for each cell, indicating whether or not the cell is
to be activated as part of the partition if selftest reveals a
processor or memory-module failure, but the cell is otherwise
viable. The default is to activate the cell.