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

Managing Virtual Partitions
Crash Processing
Chapter 356
Crash Processing
Crash processing for a virtual partition’s OS is similar to the crash
processing on a non-vPars OS: the OS is quiesced, portions of memory
are written to disk, and in the case of vPars, resources are released to the
monitor.
After the monitor dump is written to disk, you can let the crash
processing continue or you can enter the crash user interface:
• To let the crash processing continue, do nothing.
• To enter the crash user interface, press any key on the console.
NOTE HP recommends that you let crash processing continue.
Crash User Interface
If you enter the crash user interface, you will see messages similar to the
following on the console:
Virtual Partition Activity at Time of Crash
partition 0 (vpar1): active
partition 1 (vpar2): active
partition 2 (vpar3): inactive
The active partitions will be invoked to perform
crash handling. A soft reset will then be generated
to allow additional debugging.
TO OVERRIDE THIS BEHAVIOR, PRESS A KEY WITHIN 10 SECONDS....
CRASH PROCESS STOPPED.
Crash Command Menu
1. Examine memory contents
2. Continue with default crash handling
3. Cause monitor crash dump to different device
4. Soft reset the machine (memory preserved)
5. Hard reset the machine (memory not preserved)