nPartition Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
Remote management using the commands is supported as described in “Specifying Remote
Management Options to Commands” (page 247).
Table 1-3 nPartition Commands Releases
Enhanced nPartition CommandsOriginal nPartition Commands
• Support both local management and remote
management of nPartitions and complexes.
• Distributed with the HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) release.
Installed and supported for use on all systems that run
HP-UX 11i Version 3.
• Distributed with the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) release.
Installed and supported for use on all systems that run
HP-UX 11i Version 2.
• Distributed with the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) December
2004 release and later.
• Available for Windows (32-bit) and Windows (64-bit).
Distributed with the Smart Setup CD.
• Available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server. Distributed with the HP Integrity
Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux.
• Support only local management of nPartitions and
complexes.
• Were distributed with HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) releases
prior to the December 2004 release.
• Supported by HP-UX kernels built with nPartition
support enabled (the hd_fabric driver) and use the
libfab.1 library.
• Installed as part of the HP-UX 11i Version 1 operating
system installation prior to the December 2004 release.
Table 1-4 describes the nPartition configuration commands and lists sections where you can find
each command's syntax and details.
Table 1-4 nPartition Commands Descriptions
DescriptionCommand
Create a new nPartition; root or IPMI LAN access is required.
See “parcreate Command” (page 249).
parcreate
Modify an existing nPartition; root or IPMI LAN access is required.
See “parmodify Command” (page 252).
parmodify
Remove an existing nPartition; root or IPMI LAN access is required.
See “parremove Command” (page 256).
parremove
Display nPartition information and hardware details for a server complex.
See “parstatus Command” (page 258).
parstatus
Unlock Complex Profile data (use this command with caution); root or IPMI LAN access
is required.
See “parunlock Command” (page 260).
parunlock
Blink the attention indicators (LEDs) or turn them off. This command can control these
indicators for cells, I/O chassis, and cabinet numbers.
See “fruled Command” (page 262).
fruled
Display status or turn power on or off for cells and I/O chassis; root or IPMI LAN access
is required.
See “frupower Command” (page 264).
frupower
Only distributed with the Enhanced nPartition Commands.
Modify server complex attributes. Supports changing the name of a complex; root or IPMI
LAN access is required
See “cplxmodify Command” (page 266).
cplxmodify
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