Npartition And Resource Health Status; Viewing Partition And Resource Health Status Using The Cli - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual

You must consider the following for a SAN boot:
Dual paths to SAN/storage is recommended for all partitions
Allows online updates of switch and array firmware
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Two hops or less is strongly recommended
No factory installation of operating environment is available
nPartition and vPar definition is available and is independent of the installation of an
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operating system.

nPartition and Resource Health Status

The nPartition and resource status reveals the current health of the hardware. The nPartition resources
(blades and IObays) might have one of the following usage status:
Resource Usage
Empty
Inactive
Un-integrated
Active
The partition resources might display one of the following health status:
Resource health
OK
D
I
PD
PI
The health of an nPartition depends on the health of its owned resources. If there are unhealthy
resources, the health of the partition is marked as Degraded. If all the resources in the partition
are healthy, the health of the partition is reported as OK.

Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI

Use the parstatus command to view the health status of nPartitions:
parstatus
NOTE: No action specified. Default behavior is display all.
[Complex]
Complex Name: Complex1
Complex UUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
Complex Capacity
Compute Enclosure: 1
IO Enclosure: 8
Monarch OA Location: 1
Model: N/A
Original Serial Number: Unset
Current Product Order Number: AH337A
Meaning
Okay/healthy
Deconfigured
Indicted
Parent Deconfigured
Parent Indicted
Description
The slot has no resource.
Resource is inactive.
Firmware is in the process of discovering or integrating the
resource. It cannot be used for partition operations.
The resource is active in the partition.
Comment
Resource is present and usable.
Resource has been deconfigured.
Resource has been indicted.
A parent resource has been deconfigured. An example is the
status of a memory DIMM which is healthy when the blade in
which it is located is deconfigured. The DIMM status is then PD.
Similar to PD except the parent resource has been indicted.
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