Windows nPartition Guide v5.5

This error can occur when the command attempts to update the SCCD with the complex name
set to its initial default value of 20 blank spaces.
To troubleshoot this problem take the following steps:
1. Verify you have network connectivity by telnetting to the MP and successfully logging in.
2. Verify that the nPartition provider is running. To do this, go to the Windows Service
Management Console by selecting Start > Contr ol Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
Find the service named WMINParProvider and make sure it is started. If it hasn’t, click the
WMINParProvider service and use the Start context menu action to start it. If the service is
missing, you must re-install it (See “Installing nPartition Management Utilities” (page 31)).
3. If you see errors in updating the SCCD, ensure that the SCCD is unlocked by issuing the
command: parunlock -s -g -h <hostname of MP>.
4. Check whether the complex name has been set with the parstatus -X -g -h <hostname
of MP> command. Set the complex name to any string other than all blanks (this is the default
setting) using the cplxmodify command: cplxmodify -N <yourcomplexname> -g -h
<hostname of MP>
See the on-line documentation or “cplxmodify” (page 104) for details on the valid syntax of
complex names.
At this point, you should be able to continue to successfully create and modify your nPartitions.
NOTE: HP recommends that the complex name be set immediately as the first action, once a
complex is set up, to prevent this error.
NOTE: The message:
Error: Unable to update the Stable Complex Configuration Data
can also occur if some other administrator or application has locked the SCCD at the time the
parcreate, parmodify, or parremove commands were run.
Parremove: shutdown and reset instructions
After using the parremove command to remove an active partition, you might see the following
messages:
NOTE: The -g option can require up to 2 minutes to complete. Please
wait.
NOTE: The specified partition has been marked for removal.
The correct response to this message is to first perform a Windows operating system shut-down
for the partition, using either the Shutdown command or selecting Start > Shutdown. Once the
partition is back at the system firmware (EFI) prompt, log in to the MP and use the RR command
to put the partition into the Shutdown for Reconfiguration mode. Another method is to just enter
reset at the EFI shell. Either method propagates the configuration changes to all of the cells in
the partition.
HP recommends that in the future you place the operating system into this mode before using
the parremove command.
Parstatus -c -V: apparent incorrect output
This issue occurs when the parstatus -c -Vcommand appears to give incorrect output. In
reality this is not an error, since the output displayed for “CPU Type” is only relevant with
PA-RISC systems. This output should be ignored, since it is not valid for Integrity servers running
Windows Server 20003.
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