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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
vPar Console and Log Use on nPartition Servers
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 465
vPar Console and Log Use
on nPartition Servers
On HP Superdome servers, each nPartition has its own console and its
own console log that stores a record of recent console activity.
When an nPartition has one or more vPars booted, the nPartition console
serves as the console for all vPars loaded/booted in the nPartition.
NOTE To switch among vPar console interfaces, type Control-a when accessing
the corresponding nPartition console.
In the following example, the user of the nPartition console repeatedly
types Control-a to cycle through the available vPar consoles.
feshd3a / Shad [HP Release B.11.11] (see /etc/issue)
Console Login:
Control-a
[Mesh]
Control-a
[Abed]
Control-a
[Danl]
Control-a
[Shad]
Control-a
[Mesh]
The above example starts with console access to the vPar named “Shad”,
then switches to the “Mesh” vPar console, “Abed” console, “Danl” console,
and then back to the “Shad” and finally the “Mesh” vPar console.
The service processor (GSP) console log stores nPartition console output,
including BCH output and HP-UX /dev/console for nPartitions.
On nPartition server running vPars, all vPars in the nPartition emit
their /dev/console output to the nPartition console. Thus, when
HP-UX 11i is running in multiple vPars in an nPartition, the nPartition
console will display /dev/console output for more than one instance of
HP-UX.