Technical data

nPartition System Overviews

Tools for Managing nPartitions

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Partition Manager

(parmgr)

Partition Manager (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr) provides a graphical

interface for conﬁguring, modifying, and managing nPartitions and

hardware within a server complex.

See the section Using the Partition Manager Utility on page 106 for

details.

• Availability—You can use Partition Manager when HP-UX is

running in multi-user mode on the nPartition. You can use

Partition Manager as a stand-alone X window application

(parmgr) and can launch it from SAM. Partition Manager also can

be launched from a PC Web browser.

• Features—Provides a graphical user interface and also supports

Web console access. Performs additional error checking beyond

what the HP-UX nPartition conﬁguration commands support.

Also supports I/O card online addition and replacement.

• Tasks Supported—Conﬁguring, modifying, and getting

information about nPartitions and hardware within a

hard-partitionable server complex.

• Detailed Information—See the parmgr online help.

System

Administration

Manager (SAM)

When using SAM (/usr/sbin/sam) in graphical mode, you can

launch Partition Manager from SAM.

See Partition Manager, above, for details.

Table 1-3 Management Tools for nPartitions (Continued)

Partition Tool Features and Restrictions