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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