Windows nPartition Guide v5.5
Table Of Contents
- nPartition Administrator's Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Quick Start
- Getting to know nPartitions
- Choosing a management tool
- Management interface options
- Choosing a management mode
- Setting up the management station
- Performing nPartition management tasks
- 2 Installing nPartition Management Utilities
- 3 Using Partition Manager
- 4 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions
- Complex-level tasks
- nPartition-level tasks
- Boot configuration options for nPartition systems
- Find bootable devices
- List nPartition configurations
- List the local (current) nPartition number
- List memory configurations
- Configure boot paths and options
- Configure autoboot options
- Configure boot-time system tests
- Boot Windows Server 2003
- Boot over a network
- Shut down Windows Server 2003
- Reboot and reset
- Reboot for reconfiguration
- Shut down to a shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state
- Boot an inactive nPartition
- Perform a transfer of control reset
- Create a Genesis Partition
- Create a new nPartition
- Remove (delete) an nPartition
- Add cells to an nPartition
- Set core cell choices
- Rename an nPartition
- Cell-level tasks
- Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks
- List input/output (I/O) configurations
- List cabinets in a server complex
- List power status and power supplies
- List fan and blower status
- Turn attention indicators (LEDs) on and off
- Power server cabinets on and off
- Power cells and I/O chassis on and off
- Configure and deconfigure cells
- Configure and deconfigure processors (CPUs)
- Configure and deconfigure memory (DIMMs)
- 5 nPartition Commands Reference
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Installation problems
- Checking component installation and operation
- Operational problems
- All commands: ordinal not found
- All commands: required data unavailable or locked
- Fruled: LED error messages (mid-range servers only)
- Frupower: cannot power off error
- Parcreate and parmodify: cell local memory warnings
- Parcreate, parmodify, and parremove: failure to update stable complex configuration data (SCCD)
- Parremove: shutdown and reset instructions
- Parstatus -c -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus -p -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus: local partition error
- Parstatus: unable to get read lock error
- Using WMIOP.EXE to pinpoint problems
- Error messages and corrective actions
- Index

Options
DescriptionOption
Turn off specified attention LEDs. This is the default.
The -f and -o options are mutually exclusive.
-f
Start blinking the specified attention LEDs. The -o option is unavailable with -C or -I.-o
Start or stop blinking the cabinet number LCD of the cabinet that contains the cell or
I/O chassis.
The -B option is only available with -c and -i.
-B
link or turn off the specified cell attention LED.
cell can be specified either in the local (cabinet/slot) or global (cell_ID) format.
-c cell
Blink or turn off the specified IOchassis attention LED.
-i IOchassis
Turn off all IOchassis LEDs.
-I IOchassis
Start or stop blinking the cabinet number LCD of the specified cabinet.
-b cabinet
Turn off all cell attention LEDs.
-C
Limit the scope of the -C or -I option to a given cabinet.
-l cabinet
Specifies the account and authorization to access an nPartition other than the local
nPartition.
The -h option is required if this option is used.
• username specifies a configured user name on the target nPartition.
• passwd specifies the password associated with the username. If this field is empty, the
command prompts for the password.
-u username:[passwd]
Allows access to the complex specified by the -h option. The accessed complex is then
considered the target complex. Access is through the MP LAN port.The -h option is
required if this option is used.
passwd specifies the IPMI password of the MP. If this field is omitted, the command
prompts for the password.
-g [passwd]
This option is only used in combination with either the -u or -g option.
IPaddress|hostname specifies the IP address or hostname of the target nPartition (-u) or
MP (-g).
-h IPaddress|hostname
Example
In the following example, you connect to the server’s management processor (MP) from your
management station. The MP IP number is 192.168.24.68, and the MP password is “password”.
Since you are connecting remotely using IPMI over LAN, you must include the -h... -g...
options with each command.
You want to find the core cell in nPartition #3 (“Frodo”) so you can add more memory to it. But
you’re not sure which cell is the core, or where it’s located in the cabinet.
You use the parstatus command first (with the -P option) to find out which cell is the core.
Then you use the fruled command to turn off all cell indicator LEDs in the complex (-C option).
Then you use the fruled command again to make the LEDs blink on the target cabinet and the
cell itself (-B and -c options).
1. Open a command window on the management station (Start > Run >entercmd >click OK).
2. At the command prompt, enter the following: parstatus -h 192.168.24.68 -g
password -P and press Enter.
fruled 101