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Granting permission for an OS to manage nPartitions, nPartition Commands

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Figure 5-1 OA GUI Login Screen 2. Enter the OA Administrator password. NOTE: The original Administrator password is available on a sticker on the OA module. nPartition Commands Commands for Configuring nPartitions You can use the nPartition commands to create, modify, monitor, and remove nPartitions. Table 3-1 describes the nPartition configuration commands. NOTE: To execute partition commands from the operating system, root or IPMI LAN access is required. Table 5-1 nPartition Commands Descriptions Command parcreate pardefault parmodify parperm Description Create a new nPartition. For more information, see help parcreate . Display or change default values of certain nPartition attributes. For more information, see help pardefault . Modify an existing nPartition. For more information, see help parmodify . Configure partition configuration privilege for nPartitions and vPars . For more information, see help parperm . NOTE: The parperm command is available only from the onboard administrator. parremove parstatus Remove an existing nPartition. For more information, see help parremove . Display nPartition information and hardware details for a server complex. For more information, see help parstatus. Granting permission for an OS to manage nPartitions Use the parperm command to remove restrictions which prevent an operating system running in a partition from performing partition configuration operations on other partitions. By default, a partition can only perform partition configuration operations on itself. The commands to display partition status do not need any authorization and are allowed from any partition. The following command removes nPartition configuration restriction from an OS running in nPartition 1, enabling it to perform nPartition configuration operations on nPartitions other than nPartition 1. parperm npar on 1 For more information, see help parperm. 36 Creating and Configuring nPartitions

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Figure 5-1 OA GUI Login Screen
2.
Enter the OA Administrator password.
NOTE:
The original Administrator password is available on a sticker on the OA module.
nPartition Commands
Commands for Configuring nPartitions
You can use the nPartition commands to create, modify, monitor, and remove nPartitions.
Table 3-1
describes the nPartition configuration commands.
NOTE:
To execute partition commands from the operating system,
root
or IPMI LAN access
is required.
Table 5-1 nPartition Commands Descriptions
Description
Command
Create a new nPartition. For more information, see
help parcreate
.
parcreate
Display or change default values of certain nPartition attributes. For more information, see
help
pardefault
.
pardefault
Modify an existing nPartition. For more information, see
help parmodify
.
parmodify
Configure partition configuration privilege for nPartitions and vPars . For more information, see
help parperm
.
NOTE:
The
parperm
command is available only from the onboard administrator.
parperm
Remove an existing nPartition. For more information, see
help parremove
.
parremove
Display nPartition information and hardware details for a server complex. For more information,
see
help parstatus
.
parstatus
Granting permission for an OS to manage nPartitions
Use the
parperm
command to remove restrictions which prevent an operating system running
in a partition from performing partition configuration operations on other partitions. By default,
a partition can only perform partition configuration operations on itself. The commands to display
partition status do not need any authorization and are allowed from any partition.
The following command removes nPartition configuration restriction from an OS running in
nPartition 1, enabling it to perform nPartition configuration operations on nPartitions other than
nPartition 1.
parperm npar on 1
For more information, see
help parperm
.
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