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Listing and Managing Server Hardware

Tools for Listing and Managing Hardware

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Tools for Listing and Managing Hardware

You can use several software tools to list server hardware details and

manage the hardware in a server complex. These tools have features that

overlap for some tasks, but each tool also has unique features.

The tools for listing and managing system hardware are:

• Service Processor (GSP or MP) menus

Service processor menus provide a complex-wide service interface

that can allow access to all hardware and nPartitions.

NOTE The service processor in HP servers is sometimes called the

Management Processor (MP) and sometimes the Guardian Service

Processor (GSP).

Regardless of the name, the service processor in these servers

provides approximately the same features and performs essentially

the same role.

Throughout this document, the term “service processor” refers to

both the MP and GSP service processors.

Hardware management features include the service processor

Command menu’s DU, ID, PE, PS, and SYSREV commands.

• Boot Console Handler (BCH) interfaces

The BCH interface is the method for interacting with an nPartition

before it has booted HP-UX.

Hardware management features include the BCH interface’s

Conﬁguration menu, Interface menu, and Service menu.

• HP-UX Commands

HP-UX commands allow you to manage and monitor nPartitions and

hardware within a server complex from HP-UX running on any of

the server’s nPartitions.

Hardware management features include the parstatus, frupower,

fruled, and rad commands, among many others.