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nPartition System Overviews
nPartition Active and Inactive States
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• Turning Attention Indicators (LEDs) On or Off—You can use
the fruled command or Partition Manager to control the attention
indicators for all hardware in the server complex from any
nPartition.
nPartition Active and Inactive States
Each nPartition’s boot state either is active or inactive.
Active nPartition
An nPartition that is active has at least one cell that is active (not in a
boot-is-blocked state). When an nPartition is active, the nPartition’s
available cells complete partition rendezvous and then the Boot Console
Handler (BCH) interface is loaded and is displayed on the nPartition’s
console. HP-UX is loaded and run from BCH on an active partition.
Inactive nPartition
An inactive partition is considered to be in the ready for reconfig
state, because all cells assigned to the nPartition either remain at a
boot-is-blocked state or are powered off.
Use the parstatus -P HP-UX command to list all nPartitions and their
boot states (active or inactive).
# parstatus -P
[Partition]
Par # of # of I/O
Num Status Cells Chassis Core cell Partition Name (first 30 chars)
=== ============ ===== ======== ========== ===============================
0 inactive 2 1 ? feshd5a
1 active 2 1 cab1,cell2 feshd5b
#
To make an inactive partition active, use the service processor (GSP or
MP) Command menu’s BO command. The BO command clears the
boot-is-blocked flag for all cells assigned to the nPartition, thus allowing
the cells to rendezvous and enabling the nPartition to run the BCH
interface. (If all of an nPartition’s cells are powered off, you must power
on its cells to enable the nPartition to become active.)
To make a partition inactive, you can issue commands from HP-UX, the
BCH interface, or the service processor (GSP or MP) Command menu.