Par* And Vpar* Commands Fail; Online Partition Update; Single Partition Update; All Partitions Update - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket User Manual

par* and vpar* commands fail

Parcon services are not available during Superdome 2 Online Firmware Update. Due to this
unavailability, all par* and vpar* commands will fail.
The affected commands include, but are not limited to: parcreate, parmodify, parperm,
parstatus, vparcreate, vparmodify, vparstatus, and others.

Online partition update

IMPORTANT:
Guidelines for online firmware updates
Online complex firmware updates should be coordinated with partition and application operations,
so as not to coincide with other administrative activities. Partition or application maintenance,
configuration changes, or other actions which rely on platform management capabilities should
not be conducted simultaneously with online complex firmware updates. This coordination will
largely avoid impact from services which are unavailable during online updates.
During online partition updates, the partition firmware is installed but does not become active until
the nPar reboots. This enables rolling upgrades, where nPars are updated one at a time as downtime
to reboot becomes available.

Single partition update

To target a firmware update to a single online partition, use one of the following commands.
IMPORTANT:
the modifiers however must be applied in the following order:
1.
[FORCE]
2.
[REINSTALL]
3.
[NOEXECUTE]
Updating to a higher bundle revision
oa> UPDATE NPARTITION <nPar name or number> <uri>
Updating to a lower bundle revision
oa> UPDATE NPARTITION <nPar name or number> <uri> FORCE
Checking the Status of Bundle, no update occurs
oa> UPDATE NPARTITION <nPar name or number> <uri> NOEXECUTE
Overwriting a bundle of the same revision
oa> UPDATE NPARTITION <nPar name or number> <uri> REINSTALL

All partitions update

Use the following command to update all partitions present in the system as well as any blades
that are not currently assigned to any partition:
oa> UPDATE NPARTITION ALL <nPar name or number> <uri>
NOTE: The [FORCE], [REINSTALL], and [NOEXECUTE] command modifiers still apply.

Blade update

This is not possible as a blade unassigned to a partition cannot boot an OS instance.
More than one command line modifier can be applied in a given situation. However
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