Service Partition - HP Carrier-grade cc2300 User Manual

Service Partition

The service partition is a special hard disk partition. The service partition has been
installed on the HP Carrier Grade cc2300 and cc3300 Servers. The service partition size is
40Mbytes.
The service partition contains utilities and other software required for remote management.
The service partition is not marked as an active partition and the server will only boot from
it by a special request. It is not normally visible to the server user because it has a special
non-standard partition type that does not appear as an accessible file system to the end user
operating system. However, low-level disk utilities may see the partition entry as an EISA
partition, and recognize its space.
The utilities on the service partition can be run locally or remotely. In order to run the
utilities the server must boot from the service partition. Remote execution is available
from the Direct Platform Control (DPC) Console Manager and the Client System Setup
Utility (CSSU).
Refer to the Intel Server Control Installation Guide for the HP cc2300 & cc3300 Carrier
Grade Servers manual for detailed information about booting into the service partition.
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