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

To install the nPartition Commands Bundle, complete the following steps:
1. Insert the Smart Setup CD and click the Software tab.
2. In the left column, select the model number of the target server.
3. In the left column of the next page, click the Partitioning Tools link.
4. In the Partitioning Tools section, select one of the following:
• If you are installing onto a 32-bit client machine that will be used to remotely administer
the target server, select HP nPartition Commands Bundle for Windows XP or Windows
Server 2000/2003.
• If you are installing onto the target server itself, select HP nPartition Commands Bundle
for Windows Server 2003 on Itanium®-based systems.
5. At the top of the next page, click the Download button.
6. In the File Download window, click Run.
7. In the Security Warning window, click Run.
8. In the HP Package Setup window, click Install.
9. In the command window, click any key to begin the installation.
10. When the installation finishes, click any key again to exit and close the command window.
Partition Manager
This section is an overview of the installation and use of the nPartition Commands Bundle and
nPartition Manager Bundle. You must install the nPartition Commands Bundle before the
nPartition Manager Bundle.
Install the Partition Manager Bundle from the Smart Setup media
Before installing the Partition Manager Bundle, you must install the nPartition Commands Bundle
as described in the previous section.
To install the nPartition Manager Bundle, complete the following steps:
1. Insert the Smart Setup CD and click the Software tab.
2. In the left column, select the model number of the target server.
3. In the left column of the next page, click the Partitioning Tools link.
4. In the Partitioning Tools section, select HP Partition Manager Bundle for Windows.
5. At the top of the next page, click the Download button.
6. In the File Download window, click Run.
7. In the Security Warning window, click Run.
8. In the HP Package Setup window, click Install.
9. In the command window, click any key to begin the installation.
10. In the HP System Management Homepage (SMH) installation wizard screen, click Next.
11. Through the next several screens, configure the SMH administrator and security settings as
prompted, and the SMH installation begins.
12. When the SMH installation finishes, click Next in the HP Servlet Container for SMH wizard
screen. Then click Next two more times to begin the installation.
13. Click Finish to complete the servlet container installation.
14. The HP Partition Manager installation starts next. When it finishes, click any key in the
command window to exit.
NOTE: If this is the first time you have ever installed Partition Manager on the target
system, you must reboot before using it the first time.
15. Verify that the installation succeeded. See “Verifying the installation” (page 33).
32 Installing nPartition Management Utilities