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nPartition System Overviews
Tools for Managing nPartitions
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Use Table 1-3 to select the most appropriate nPartition management tool
based on the tasks you need to perform and the ways in which you can
access the system.
Table 1-3 Management Tools for nPartitions
Partition Tool Features and Restrictions
Service Processor
(GSP or MP)
menus
The service processor menus provide a complex-wide service interface
that allows access to complex hardware and nPartitions defined
within the complex.
Also refer to the chapter Using Console and Service Processor
Interfaces on page 125 for details.
• Availability—Using service processor menus requires logging in
to the service processor. Your service processor login account
determines your level of access to the complex hardware and
nPartitions.
• Features—Service processor commands, access to nPartition
consoles, Virtual Front Panels (VFPs) for live nPartition status
details, ability to power cycle hardware, ability to reset and TOC
nPartitions, ability to view live chassis codes, and access to
console and chassis code log files.
• Tasks Supported—Monitoring and listing status for all
nPartitions and hardware within a server complex. Viewing
chassis codes. nPartition console access. nPartition reset and
complex hardware power control.
Virtual Front
Panel (VFP)
interfaces
The VFP interface provides a real-time display of nPartition and cell
boot states and activities.
Also refer to the chapter Using Console and Service Processor
Interfaces on page 125 for details.
• Availability—Viewing the VFP interface for an nPartition (or
entire system) requires logging in to the service processor. Your
service processor user account determines which nPartition VFPs
you can access.
• Features—Real-time text summaries of nPartition and cell boot
states and activities.
• Tasks Supported—Monitoring nPartition boot progress and
associated cell status.