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nPartition System Overviews

Tools for Managing nPartitions

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Boot Console

Handler (BCH)

interface

The BCH interface is the method for interacting with an nPartition

before it has booted HP-UX. Each nPartition’s BCH interface provides

menus for conﬁguring nPartition settings and booting HP-UX.

Also refer to the chapter Using Console and Service Processor

Interfaces on page 125 for details.

• Availability—Using an nPartition’s BCH interface requires

accessing the nPartition’s console through the service processor

Console menu.

• Features—Allows you to select which device and which HP-UX

kernel is booted, to conﬁgure the boot actions for devices, and to

software-deallocate CPUs, memory, and cells.

• Tasks Supported—Conﬁguring and managing the HP-UX boot

process, getting nPartition-speciﬁc information, resetting the

local nPartition, conﬁguring various nPartition settings.

HP-UX nPartition

Conﬁguration

Commands

The HP-UX nPartition conﬁguration commands allow you to

conﬁgure, modify, and monitor nPartitions and hardware within a

server complex.

See the section Using HP-UX nPartition Conﬁguration Commands on

page 85 for details.

The commands include parcreate, parmodify, parstatus,

parremove, parunlock, fruled, and frupower.

• Availability—Using the HP-UX nPartition conﬁguration

commands requires logging in to HP-UX running on an

nPartition. All users can issue the parstatus and fruled

commands, but all other commands require root user

permissions.

• Features—These commands allow you to manage nPartitions and

hardware when HP-UX is in single– or multi-user mode and

when you are logged in with text-only terminal access.

• Tasks Supported—Conﬁguring, modifying, and getting

information about nPartitions and hardware within a server

complex.

Table 1-3 Management Tools for nPartitions (Continued)

Partition Tool Features and Restrictions