HP rp8420 Service Processor (GSP or MP) - User Guide, Second Edition - Page 12

Consoles Console Logs 12 Overview of the Service Processor Command menu, enter MA or enter ^b (Control-b) to return to the service processor Main menu. See "MP Commands" (page 27) for details. Service processor commands are restricted based on the three levels of access: Administrator, Operator, and Single Partition User. See "Service Processor Accounts and Access Levels" (page 13) for details. Each nPartition in a server complex has its own console. Enter CO at the service processor Main menu to access the nPartition consoles. To exit the console, enter ^b (Control-b). See "nPartition Console Features" (page 20) for details. Console output for each nPartition is reflected to all users currently accessing the nPartition console. One console user can have interactive access to each nPartition console, and all other users of the console have read-only access. To gain write access for a console, enter ^e cf (Control-e c f). Each nPartition console provides access to: • The nPartition system boot environment: either BCH or EFI. The BCH or EFI system boot environment is available when the nPartition is active but has not yet loaded or booted an operating system. - The Boot Console Handler (BCH) environment is provided on HP 9000 servers only (PA-RISC servers). - The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is provided on HP Integrity servers only (Intel® Itanium®-based servers). • HP-UX console for the nPartition. The nPartition console provides console login access to HP-UX and serves as /dev/console for the nPartition. Enter CL from the service processor Main menu to access the console logs menu. To exit the console log, enter ^b (Control-b). Each nPartition has its own console log, which stores a history of console output for the nPartition, including boot output, system boot environment (BCH or EFI) activity, and any HP-UX console login activity. See "Viewing Console Logs" (page 23) for details. The console log provides a limited history; it is a circular log file that overwrites the oldest information with the most recent. All console activity is recorded in the console log regardless of whether any service processor users are connected to the console.