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
If you access the MP using a single-partition-user account, the RS command selects which
nPartition is to be reset: the nPartition that your account allows you to access.
If you use an operator or administrator management processor account, you can select which
of the nPartitions in the server complex you want to reset.
3. To exit the MP Command menu, enter MA to return to the MP Main Menu.
4. At the Main Menu, enter X to exit the MP interface.
Procedure 4-20 Rebooting and resetting nPartitions [EFI Boot Manager]
To use the EFI Boot Manager to boot and reset nPartitions, do the following:
1. Access the EFI Boot Manager menu for the nPartition that you want to reboot:
a. Log in to the MP and enter CO to access the Console list.
b. Select the nPartition console.
c. Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI menu).
If you are at another EFI menu, select Exit from the submenus until you return to the
screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading.
2. From the EFI Boot Manager menu, select the Boot option maintenance menu. Then from
the Boot Option Maintenance menu, select the Cold Reset menu to reset the local nPartition.
The Cold Reset menu item resets all active cells in the nPartition and reboots them.
3. Exit the console and MP interfaces when you are finished using them.
a. To exit the EFI environment press ^B (Control-B). This exits the nPartition console and
returns you to the MP Main Menu.
b. To exit the MP, enter X at the Main Menu.
Procedure 4-21 Rebooting and resetting nPartitions [EFI Shell]
To use the EFI Shell environment to boot and reset nPartitions, do the following:
1. Access the EFI Shell environment for the nPartition that you want to reboot:
a. Log in to the MP and enter CO to access the Console list.
b. Select the nPartition console.
c. Confirm that you are at the EFI Boot Manager menu (the main EFI menu).
If you are at another EFI menu, select Exit from the submenus until you return to the
screen with the EFI Boot Manager heading.
2. From the EFI Boot Manager menu, select EFI Shell to access the EFI Shell environment.
3. From the EFI Shell environment, issue the reset command to reset the local nPartition.
The reset command resets all active cells in the nPartition and reboots them.
4. Exit the console and MP interfaces when you are finished using them:
a. To exit the EFI environment press ^B (Control-B). This exits the nPartition console and
returns you to the management processor Main Menu.
b. To exit the management processor, enter X at the Main Menu.
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