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Managing nPartitions
Unlocking Complex Profiles
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 305
Unlocking Complex Profiles
This section describes how you can force-unlock portions of the
nPartition Complex Profile data
CAUTION Do not force-unlock complex profile data except in extremely rare cases
following nPartition or server crashes.
Improperly force-unlocking complex profiles can result in the loss of
pending configuration changes to nPartitions and the server complex.
Under normal circumstances you do not need to manually unlock the
Complex Profile. The commands, utilities, and related procedures handle
all locking and unlocking.
In some situations, you must perform a reboot for reconfig
(shutdown -R) of a modified nPartition in order to complete an
nPartition reconfiguration and unlock the changed portion of the
Complex Profile. (For example, when removing an active cell from an
nPartition you must perform a reboot for reconfig.)
HP-UX provides the parunlock command to force-unlock parts of a
server’s Complex Profile in situations where the normal procedures and
utilities have failed.
The service processor (GSP or MP) also provides the RL command for
resetting Complex Profile locks.