Technical data

Managing nPartitions
Coordinating Changes to nPartitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 247
• When removing an active cell from an nPartition, you must perform a
reboot for reconfig (shutdown -R, not -r) of the modified nPartition
to release the Complex Profile lock, regardless of whether you use
parmodify or Partition Manager.
You must perform the reboot for reconfig before you can add or
remove other cells from nPartitions in the server complex. (The lock
on the Stable Complex Configuration Data is not released in this
case until the reboot for reconfig has occurred.)
• When you add or remove cells from an active nPartition and specify
the parmodify command’s -B option, the Stable Complex
Configuration Data remains locked until the modified nPartition has
performed a reboot for reconfig. In this situation, no further changes
to cell assignments can occur until after the reboot for reconfig.
Although you can use the parunlock command to force-unlock any parts
of a server’s Complex Profile, you should not use this command unless
the program that established the lock has abnormally terminated.
Instead, if possible, you should allow the Complex Profile to be unlocked
as part of the normal procedures described above. See the parunlock
(1M) manpage for details.