Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.03.03)

How vPars and its Components Work
Virtual Consoles
Chapter 2
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nPartition Logs
On an nPartition server running vPars, all virtual partitions within an nPartition share the same console
device: the nPartition’s console. Thus, an nPartition’s console log contains console IO for multiple virtual
partitions. Further, since the vPars Monitor interface is displayed and accessed through the nPartition’s
console, vPars Monitor output is also recorded in the nPartition’s console log. There is only one Monitor per
nPartition.
The server chassis logs record nPartition and server complex hardware events. The chassis logs do not
record vPars-related configuration or vPars boot events (PA-RISC only); however, the chassis logs do record
HP-UX "heartbeat" events. The server chassis logs are viewable from the GSPs Show Chassis Log menu. For
more information, see the Help within the GSPs online help.
The vPars Monitor event logs record only vPars events; it does not contain any nPartition chassis events.
For more information, see vparstatus (1M).
Also, for a given nPartition, the Virtual Front Panel (VFP) of the nPartition’s console displays an OS
heartbeat whenever at least one virtual partition within the nPartition is up.