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
Synopsis
parremove -p PartitionNumber [-F] [-k s_lock:p_lock]
• The -h... -g... options must be specified to cause the command to send its management
request using IPMI over LAN to a MP in another server complex (but can also be used as a
“loopback access” to the MP in the local complex).
• The -h... -u... set of options must be specified to cause the command to send its
management request using WBEM to an nPartition other than the local nPartition (but can
also be used as a “loopback access” to the local nPartition).
The -g and -u options are mutually exclusive.
Options
DescriptionOption
Specifies the nPartition number to be removed.
-p PartitionNumber
Forcibly remove the nPartition. If the nPartition is inactive, the nPartition is removed.
If the nPartition is active and if it is the local nPartition, the nPartition is removed.
If the nPartition is active but is not the local nPartition, then the nPartition will not be
removed.
-F
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
Specifies the lock keys for the Stable Complex Configuration Data and Partition
Configuration Data provided by other system management tools that invoke this
command programmatically. Command line users should avoid this option.
-k s_lock
parstatus
The parstatus command displays information about the nPartitions or hardware within a
server complex. If you specify no arguments, parstatus lists information about several of the
major components of the server complex.
You can specify an individual entity (cell, I/O chassis, cabinet, or nPartition) to restrict the output
to information about that component.
All users can issue this command.
Synopsis
parstatus -s
parstatus -w
parstatus [-X]
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