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Managing nPartitions

Naming and Renaming nPartitions

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Naming and Renaming nPartitions

Each nPartition has both a partition number and an nPartition name.

The partition name for each nPartition can have from 1 to 64

characters, including upper- and lowercase letters; numbers; and dashes,

underscores, and spaces (“-” “_” and “ ”).

You can customize each nPartition’s name to help you distinguish among

the nPartition in a server complex. (You cannot change the partition

number, which is a permanent unique identiﬁer that is automatically

assigned for each nPartition in a server complex.)

You can name and rename nPartitions using these procedures:

• Renaming an nPartition [BCH] on page 285

This procedure (Conﬁguration menu, PD command) checks and sets

the local nPartition’s name from the BCH interface.

• Renaming an nPartition [HP-UX] on page 286

This procedure (parmodify -p# -P name) sets the nPartition name for

nPartitions using HP-UX commands.

• Renaming an nPartition [Partition Manager] on page 287

This procedure (Partition —> Modify Partition action, General tab)

names and renames nPartitions using Partition Manager.

Partition names are displayed (along with partition numbers) in various

reports and menus provided by the service processor, Boot Console

Handler (BCH), and the HP-UX nPartition tools. Note that some utilities

display only the ﬁrst 30 characters of nPartition names.

Renaming an nPartition [BCH]

This procedure (Conﬁguration menu, PD command) checks and sets the

local nPartition’s name from the BCH interface.

Step 1. Login to the service processor for the server complex in which the

nPartition resides.

Step 2. Access the nPartition’s console.