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

Monitor and Shell Commands
Using Monitor Commands
Chapter 5102
Using Monitor Commands
You can use the following monitor commands at the monitor prompt for
booting and basic troubleshooting. However, most vPars operations
should be performed using the vPars shell commands.
Note the following for the monitor commands:
• Unless specifically stated, all operations occur only on the boot disk
from which the monitor was booted. Usually, this is the boot disk of
the primary path entry in system-wide stable storage.
Further, the monitor can traverse only HFS file systems. Usually, the
only HFS file system is /stand.
• Except for the vparload command, an alternate disk device cannot
be specified using the monitor commands.
• The following monitor commands are disabled when one or more
virtual partitions are up:
getauto, lifls, and readdb.
• The following monitor commands are disabled when the virtual
partition that owns the disk from which the monitor was booted,
usually the primary path, is up:
ls and cat.
Booting
• readdb filename
reads an alternate partition database filename for partition
configuration information
filename must be an absolute path and reside on a HFS file system.
Example:
If you have a backup copy of the partition database in the file
/stand/vpdb.backup, you can read the database configuration
information using:
MON> readdb /stand/vpdb.backup