HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.05 and A.04.05)

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• Changes the flexible administrative capability password. It will ask you for the existing
password before allowing you to change it.
-a|-d partition_name
• Adds or deletes a virtual partition to or from the designated-admin virtual partition list.
You will need to provide the flexible administrative capability password.
-l
• Lists all the virtual partitions that are currently in the designated-admin virtual partition
list. Use vparadmin -a to add virtual partitions to the list. Note that vparstatus does
not show any flexible administrative capability information.
Without any options
• displays whether the vPars flexible administrative capability is ON (enabled) or OFF
(disabled).
Persistence across Monitor Reboots
If the flexible administrative capability mode is not changed from ON to OFF across Monitor
reboots and the specific conditions are met (see below), the flexible administrative capability
mode will remain and the virtual partitions designated as designated-admin virtual partitions
will remain as designated-admin virtual partitions. In other words, the flexible administrative
capability mode and the designated-admin virtual partition list are persistent across Monitor
reboots when the following conditions are met:
• the disk from which the Monitor is booted is owned by a virtual partition when flexible
administrative capability changes are performed.
• the virtual partition in the above condition is up when flexible administrative capability
changes are made
These conditions are required because the Monitor cannot perform a write into the vPars database;
only a running virtual partition can perform the write.
Therefore, persistence across Monitor reboots will not be maintained under any of the following
conditions:
• The Monitor boot disk is not owned by any of the virtual partitions or no virtual partitions
are rebooted from the same disk. In this case, the vPars database of the Monitor’s boot disk
will not be updated.
• All virtual partitions are down such that any flexible administrative capability changes
cannot be written to the vPars database.
• The virtual partition whose boot disk is the disk from which the Monitor is booted is down
when flexible administrative capability changes are made.
vPars Commands
When the flexible administrative capability mode is ON, the vPars flexible administrative
capability feature restricts the vPars commands such that you can alter another virtual partition
only if you execute the command from a partition that is in the designated-admin virtual partition
list. When you execute the command from a non-designated-admin virtual partition, if the
command alters another virtual partition, it will not be allowed. (A.03.03 only: this is true even
if the vPars commands are applied to an alternate database).
The table below shows the results when the flexible administrative capability feature is ON.
290 vPars Flexible Administrative Capability (vPars A.03.03, A.03.04, vPars A.04.02, A.04.03, A.05.01)