Windows nPartition Guide v5.5
Table Of Contents
- nPartition Administrator's Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Quick Start
- Getting to know nPartitions
- Choosing a management tool
- Management interface options
- Choosing a management mode
- Setting up the management station
- Performing nPartition management tasks
- 2 Installing nPartition Management Utilities
- 3 Using Partition Manager
- 4 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions
- Complex-level tasks
- nPartition-level tasks
- Boot configuration options for nPartition systems
- Find bootable devices
- List nPartition configurations
- List the local (current) nPartition number
- List memory configurations
- Configure boot paths and options
- Configure autoboot options
- Configure boot-time system tests
- Boot Windows Server 2003
- Boot over a network
- Shut down Windows Server 2003
- Reboot and reset
- Reboot for reconfiguration
- Shut down to a shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state
- Boot an inactive nPartition
- Perform a transfer of control reset
- Create a Genesis Partition
- Create a new nPartition
- Remove (delete) an nPartition
- Add cells to an nPartition
- Set core cell choices
- Rename an nPartition
- Cell-level tasks
- Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks
- List input/output (I/O) configurations
- List cabinets in a server complex
- List power status and power supplies
- List fan and blower status
- Turn attention indicators (LEDs) on and off
- Power server cabinets on and off
- Power cells and I/O chassis on and off
- Configure and deconfigure cells
- Configure and deconfigure processors (CPUs)
- Configure and deconfigure memory (DIMMs)
- 5 nPartition Commands Reference
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Installation problems
- Checking component installation and operation
- Operational problems
- All commands: ordinal not found
- All commands: required data unavailable or locked
- Fruled: LED error messages (mid-range servers only)
- Frupower: cannot power off error
- Parcreate and parmodify: cell local memory warnings
- Parcreate, parmodify, and parremove: failure to update stable complex configuration data (SCCD)
- Parremove: shutdown and reset instructions
- Parstatus -c -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus -p -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus: local partition error
- Parstatus: unable to get read lock error
- Using WMIOP.EXE to pinpoint problems
- Error messages and corrective actions
- Index
3. Issue the shutdown command and the appropriate options to shut down Windows Server
2003 on the system.
You have the following options when shutting down Windows:
• To shut down Windows and reboot, enter shutdown /r.
• To shut down Windows and not reboot (either power down server hardware or put an
nPartition into a shutdown for reconfig state), entershutdown /s.
• To cancel a shutdown (stop a shutdown that has been initiated), entershutdown /a.
For example, enter:
shutdown /r /t 60 /c "Shut down in one minute."
This command initiates a Windows system shutdown-and-reboot after a timeout period of
60 seconds. The /c option specifies a message that is broadcast to any other users of the
system.
Reboot and reset
When you perform a reboot or reset of an nPartition, all active cells in the nPartition reboot, and
the nPartition returns to the system boot environment (EFI).
NOTE: If possible, shut down the operating system before resetting an nPartition.
Reboot and reset nPartitions by using any one of the following procedures.
Procedure 4-19 Rebooting and resetting nPartitions [management processor]
To reboot and reset nPartitions using the management processor, do the following:
1. Log in to the MP and enter CM to access the Command menu.
2. At the Command menu, enter the RS command, specify which nPartition is to be reset, and
confirm whether to reset it.
The RS command resets all active cells in the nPartition and reboots them past partition
rendezvous to the system boot environment (EFI) or an operating system.
NOTE: On HP Integrity servers, reset an nPartition only after all self-tests and partition
rendezvous have completed, for example, when the nPartition is inactive (all cells are at
BIB) or is at EFI.
Be certain to correctly select which nPartition to reset.
GSP:CM> RS
This command resets the selected partition.
WARNING: Execution of this command irrecoverably halts all system
processing and I/O activity and restarts the selected
partition.
# Name
--- ----
0) jules00
1) jules01
Select a partition number: 1
Do you want to reset partition number 1? (Y/[N]) y
-> The selected partition will be reset.
GSP:CM>
56 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions