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nPartition System Overviews

Tools for Managing nPartitions

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Tools for Managing nPartitions

You can use several different software tools to create, modify, and

monitor a server’s nPartitions and related server complex hardware.

These tools have capabilities that overlap in some cases, but each tool

also has unique features and access requirements.

The tools for managing nPartitions are:

• Service Processor (GSP or MP) menus

• Virtual Front Panel (VFP) interfaces

• Boot Console Handler (BCH) interfaces

• HP-UX nPartition Conﬁguration Commands

• Partition Manager (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr)

• System Administration Manager (SAM, /usr/sbin/sam)

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.

Table 1-3 lists the nPartition management tools and describes each tool’s

features and capabilities.