Ways of Managing nPartitions

nPartitions can be managed across a wide range of system operation. You can work with nPartitions at a very low level of the system such as the Guardian Service Processor (GSP,) or what I'll be calling the Management Processor (MP) in this chapter, or after HP-UX has booted with nPartitions commands or the menu driven Partition Manager (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr.) The following list summarizes the many options available to you for managing nPartitions, beginning with the lowest level tools and progressing to the highest level tools:

Management ProcessorThe Management Processor is a low level means of accessing the system. The Management Processor has its own unique set of commands, some of which we'll cover later. You ...

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