Monitoring Npartition Boot Activity - HP Rp7410 - Server - 0 MB RAM Administrator's Manual

4. Gain interactive access to the nPartition console.
Press Enter to access the prompt currently available from the nPartition console, if any. You
will have either interactive or non-interactive access, as described in the sections
Console Access"
To exit the nPartition console and return to the service processor Main Menu, type ^b
(Control-b) at any time.
Interactive Console Access
environment, or the operating system login or command prompt, is available from the
nPartition console.
• When an nPartition is at the BCH or EFI system boot environment you can access the
BCH Menu, the EFI Boot Manager menu, or the EFI Shell from the nPartition console.
• When an nPartition has booted to ISL you can use the EXIT command to exit ISL and
return to the BCH interface for the nPartition.
• When an nPartition has booted HP-UX, in order to access the BCH or EFI system boot
environment you must reboot HP-UX and if necessary interrupt the automatic boot
process. (To reboot the nPartition, use the shutdown -r command, or use shutdown
-R if you also are changing the cell configuration of the nPartition.)
• When an nPartition has booted Windows, in order to access the EFI system boot
environment you must reboot Windows and if necessary interrupt the automatic boot
process. (To reboot the nPartition, use the shutdown /r Windows command.)
Non-Interactive Console Access
nPartition console. In these cases you can wait until the console is interactive or can force
interactive access.
• When the nPartition is resetting or is booting an operating system you cannot interact
with software running on the nPartition.
Once the nPartition has completed resetting, or has completed booting the operating
system, you can interact with the BCH or EFI system boot environment or with an
operating system running on the nPartition.
To determine the boot state of an nPartition use the Virtual Front Panel, which is
available from the service processor Main menu.
• When another user already is attached to the console you can access the nPartition
console in spy (read-only) mode or can force write access by typing ^ecf (Control-e
c f).
Spy mode allows you to view console information but does not enable you to enter
commands. If you type when accessing an nPartition console in spy mode, the console
prints the following message.
[Read-only - use ^Ecf to attach to console.]
When in spy mode, you can force access to the nPartition console by typing ^ecf
(Control-e c f). Doing this provides you interactive console access and forces ("bumps")
the user who was using the console into spy mode.
[Bumped user - Admin.]

Monitoring nPartition Boot Activity

On HP cell-based servers you can monitor the nPartition boot process—from power-on or reset
to operating system start-up—using the Virtual Front Panel (VFP) view of the nPartition.
Each nPartition has its own VFP that displays details about the cells assigned to the nPartition
and the current boot state and activity.
104 Booting and Resetting nPartitions
and "Non-Interactive Console Access"
In most situations a prompt for the BCH or EFI system boot
In the following situations, you cannot interact with the
in this step.
"Interactive