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
Using the MP Command menu
The MP provides the following commands, available from the Command menu, to support boot
and reset operations:
RS
Reset an nPartition. Reset an nPartition only after all self-tests and partition rendezvous
have completed.
RR
Perform a shutdown for reconfig of an nPartition. Reset an nPartition only after all self-tests
and partition rendezvous have completed.
BO
Boot the cells assigned to an nPartition past the waiting at BIBstate and begin the nPartition
boot phase.
TC
Perform a transfer of control reset of an nPartition.
PE
Power on or power off a cabinet, cell, or I/O chassis. On HP Integrity mid-range servers,
nPartition power on and power off also is supported to manage power of all cells and I/O
chassis assigned to the nPartition using a single command.
Using the EFI Shell
EFI Shell provides the following commands to support boot and reset operations:
bcfg
Lists and configures the boot options list for the local
nPartition.
autoboot
Lists, enables, or disables the nPartition autoboot
configuration value.
acpiconfig
Lists and configures the nPartition ACPI configuration
setting, which determines whether HP-UX, Windows, or
Linux can boot on the nPartition.
To boot Windows Server 2003, you must set the ACPI
configuration setting for the nPartition to windows.
acpiconfig enable
softpowerdown
When set, causes nPartition hardware to be powered off
when the operating system issues a shutdown for reconfig
command. On mid-range servers with a windows ACPI
configuration setting, this is the default behavior. This
command is available only on mid-range servers.
acpiconfig disable
softpowerdown
When set, causes nPartition cells to remain at BIB when
the operating system issues a shutdown for reconfig
command. In this case an operating system shutdown for
reconfig makes the nPartition inactive. This command is
available only on mid-range servers.
reset
Resets the local nPartition, resetting all cells and then
proceeding with the nPartition boot phase.
reconfigreset
Performs a shutdown for reconfig of the local nPartition,
resetting all cells and then holding them at the wait at BIB
state, making the nPartition inactive.
Using Microsoft Windows commands
Microsoft Windows includes the following commands for shutting down and rebooting an
nPartition:
shutdown /r
Shuts down Windows and performs a reboot for reconfig of the nPartition.
All cells are reset and nPartition reconfiguration occurs as needed. The
nPartition then proceeds with the nPartition boot phase.
28 Introduction