Technical data

Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces

nPartition Console Access versus Direct HP-UX Login

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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You should login to HP-UX running on an nPartition when you do not

need to use service processor features and do not want to record a log of

your activity.

Before HP-UX has booted, the service processor nPartition consoles are

the primary method of interacting with an nPartition.

After an nPartition has booted HP-UX, you should be able to connect to

and login to the nPartition by using telnet or rlogin to remotely login.

If the HP-UX kernel booted on the nPartition does not have networking

fully conﬁgured, you may need to login using a service processor

nPartition console connection to set up the nPartition’s networking

conﬁguration (using /sbin/set_parms).

To view the /dev/console messages for HP-UX running on an nPartition,

you can access the nPartition’s console, view its console log, or use the

xconsole command or xterm -C command and option. See the xconsole

(1) or xterm (1) manpages for details.