HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (766170-001, May 2014)

For example, If nPar is in ACTIVATING state during OA reboot, it is possible that the nPar can be
declared as DETACHED.
When there are any state changes in the nPar, the partition comes DOWN or UP to a stable state
and partitioning subsystem completes rediscovery of this nPar in that stable state. If in case, the
partition keeps moving from one state to the other during the discovery process, it will cease
discovery and abort the process and retain the nPar state as DETACHED.
NOTE: If the partition persists in the DETACHED state and manageability of the nPartition is
needed immediately or if there are WSMAN alerts indicating permanent loss of firmware control
(event number:10575), an outage of the nPartition needs to be planned and the partition must be
forcibly powered off to recover it to the inactive state. The following OA CLI command can be
used to forcibly power off the partition:
POWEROFF PARTITION <nParId> FORCE
Once powered off firmware control will be restored and normal operation following a boot will
be possible.
Partition specifications (parspec)
A parspec is a collection of data that defines the configuration of a specific nPartition, including
all defined vPars.
You may use the parspec functionality to do the following:
• Save nPartition and vPartition configurations.
• Modify configurations
• Create partitions
The following are the key features of parspecs.
• Every parspec defines only one nPartition.
• Multiple nPartitions must be described in multiple parspecs.
• A nPartition can be created from a specified parspec.
• Every nPartition that exists has a parspec associated with it (referred to as a current parspec),
and there can be only one current parspec for a given nPartition.
• Any parspec not associated with an existing nPartition is an alternate parspec.
• Every parspec has a unique name (scope of uniqueness is a complex).
• Parspecs can be managed through the partition commands.
• The vPar database resides within a parspec.
28 Getting started with nPartitions