Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.02.01)

Monitor and Shell Commands

Accessing the Monitor Prompt

Chapter 5 101

Accessing the Monitor Prompt

You can reach the monitor prompt in the following ways:

• From the ISL prompt, you can boot the monitor into interactive mode

(see “Booting the vPars Monitor” on page 100).

• After shutting down all virtual partitions, you will arrive at the

monitor prompt on the console (see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the

Hard Partition (rebooting the vPars monitor)” on page 120).

• When the system monarch CPU is not owned by any virtual

partition, you will also see the monitor prompt MON> while toggling

among the virtual consoles.

A monarch CPU exists in both non-vPars and vPars servers. After a

server is powered-on, the monarch CPU determines what other

CPUs are conﬁgured in the server and then launches the other CPUs

to create a multi-CPU server. Typically, the CPU with the lowest

numbered hardware path address (hpa) is the monarch CPU. To see

the lowest numbered hardware path, on a non-vPars server use

ioscan, or on a vPars server use the monitor command scan.