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nPartition System Overviews

nPartition Active and Inactive States

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

• When HP-UX is running on an nPartition, you can make the

nPartition inactive by issuing the shutdown -R -H command to shut

down HP-UX, reboot all cells, and hold all cells at a boot-is-blocked

state.

• When the BCH interface is available for an nPartition, you can make

the nPartition inactive by issuing the BCH interface’s

RECONFIGRESET command. This reboots all cells assigned to the

nPartition and holds all cells at a boot-is-blocked state.

• If an nPartition is active but is not responsive (that is, if you can

neither login as root to issue the shutdown -R -H command nor

access the nPartition’s BCH interface from its console), then use the

service processor Command menu’s RR command to make the

nPartition inactive. This reboots all cells assigned to the nPartition

and holds all cells at a boot-is-blocked state.

CAUTION Issuing the service processor Command menu’s RR command

immediately halts all processing and I/O activity on the speciﬁed

nPartition. Be certain to correctly specify which nPartition is to be

reset to the ready for reconﬁg state.

All three methods above reboot an nPartition and hold all of its cells at

boot-is-blocked; as a result the rebooted nPartition is placed in the ready

for reconﬁg (inactive) state.