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
parstatus [-A] [-M] -C|-I
parstatus [-M] -B|-P
parstatus [-M] -i IOchassis [-i...]
parstatus [-V|-M] -c cell [-c...]
parstatus [-V|-M] -b cabinet [-b...]
parstatus [-V|-M] -p PartitionNumber [-p...]
parstatus [-T]
• The -h... -g... options must be specified to cause the command to send its management
request using IPMI over LAN to a MP in another server complex (but can also be used as a
“loopback access” to the MP in the local complex).
• The -h... -u... set of options must be specified to cause the command to send its
management request using WBEM to an nPartition other than the local nPartition (but can
also be used as a “loopback access” to the local nPartition).
The -g and -u options are mutually exclusive.
Options
DescriptionOption
Indicate (through parstatus exit status) whether the system is an HP server that supports
nPartitions. Not supported with the -h... -g... options.
-s
Display the nPartition number for the local nPartition. Not supported with the -h...
-g... options.
-w
Display the server complex attributes.
-X
Only display the available resources in the complex.
-A
Only display the HyperThreading information.
-T
Increase the amount of information displayed.
This option includes interleaved and cell local memory settings when cell (-c cell) or
nPartition (-p partition) details are displayed.
-V
Produce output suitable for machine parsing.
-M
Show information for all the cells in the complex.
-C
Show information for all I/O chassis in the complex.
-I
Show information for all cabinets in the complex.
-B
Show information for all nPartitions in the complex.
-P
Show information about the specified cell.
-c cell
Show information about the specified I/O chassis.
-i IOchassis
Show information about the specified cabinet.
-b cabinet
Show information about the specified nPartition.
-p partition
Specifies the account and authorization to access an nPartition other than the local
nPartition.
The -h option is required if this option is used.
• username specifies a configured user name on the target nPartition.
• passwd specifies the password associated with the username. If this field is empty, the
command prompts for the password.
-u username:[passwd]
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