Windows Integrity nPartition Guide

Using Other Tools for Managing nPartitions

Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks

Chapter 4

Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks

The following section describes tasks you can perform in order to manage or view the

status of I/O components or other hardware within the complex, or individual

nPartitions, or individual cells.

List input/output (I/O) configurations

nPartition input/output (I/O) configuration details include the I/O chassis population,

cell-to-chassis connections, PCI card slot capabilities, and PCI card details.

List I/O configurations using the following procedure:

Listing input/output (I/O) configurations [par commands]

From the command line, use the parstatus -I command to list details about all I/O

chassis in the server complex.

Step 1. Login to Windows on the Management Station PC.

To list details about the cards and slots in an I/O chassis you must login to the nPartition

to which the cell connected to the I/O chassis is assigned. If using the parstatus -I

command you can login to any nPartition in the complex or remotely list details from

Windows.

Step 2. Issue the command to list details about I/O chassis and PCI slots.

• parstatus -I — List details about all I/O chassis in the server complex, including

the usage (absent, active, inactive), whether the chassis has Core I/O, and which cell

the I/O chassis is connected to.

NOTE You must include the correct remote administration options when issuing par commands

(-h and -g for IPMI over LAN connections; -h and -u for WBEM/WMI connections). For

a complete explanation of these options, refer to the command description in “nPartition

Commands Reference” on page 109.

List cabinets in a server complex

Cabinet details include the cabinet type, a list of cells, I/O chassis, power supplies,

utilities, fans, firmware components, interconnecting hardware. Other information such

as the power status, faults, and LED states also are given.

List the cabinets in a server complex using the following procedure:

Listing cabinets in a server complex [par commands]

From the command line, use the parstatus -B command to list all cabinets in the

server complex, or use the parstatus -V -b# command to view a detailed status for the

specified cabinet (-b# where # is the cabinet number).

Step 1. Login to Windows on the Management Station PC.

Step 2. Issue commands to list details about cabinets in the target complex.