topic Help Npar crashed .... in Operating System - HP-UX

Help Npar crashed ....

Coolmar — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:43:59 GMT

I have a rp7420 with two npars and 3 vpars per npar. I rebooted one of the vpars and it didn't come back. Went to the MP> and found the following:

Partitions will NOT be invoked for crash handling.
A hard reset will be generated

TO OVERRIDE THIS BEHAVIOR, PRESS A KEY WITHIN 10 SECONDS...
Resetting machine (HARD)...

It is staying at that and has not come back. I don't know what to do now. Any ideas?

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

Asif Sharif — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:57:03 GMT

Hi Devine,
Crash processing for a virtual partition's OS is similar to the crash processing on a non-vPars OS: the OS is quiesced, portions of memory are written to disk, and in the case of vPars, resources are released to the monitor.

Please read the follow link, It will help you.

http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90018/index.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90018/ch03s07.html

Regards,
Asif Sharif

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

melvyn burnard — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:03:07 GMT

So are you saying that after the VPar was rebooted, the whole NPar crashed and is now no longer booting up?

I would check your firmware versions on the server, and also ask what version of HP-UX and what version of VPars are you using.

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

Coolmar — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:05:50 GMT

Hi Burnard....the firmware is the latest because he was in just before xmas to upgrade it all. The OS is HP-UX 11.11 and I have no idea what version the vpars are at....how can I find that out?

Yes, I simply rebooted a vpar with the shutdown command and that was the message that I found on the GSP when the vpar wouldn't come back up.

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

melvyn burnard — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:23:27 GMT

Use swlist to check what version of Vpars you are using. Also check what version of iCOD software is in use, if it is indeed installed.

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

Coolmar — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:25:15 GMT

VPAR11i B.11.11.0404.1 Enablement Patches 11i, April 2003
VPARMGR B.11.11.01.02 Virtual Partition Manager - HP-UX
B9073BA B.06.00 HP-UX iCOD (Instant Capacity on Demand)

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

melvyn burnard — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:45:24 GMT

try using swlist -l product |grep -i virtual

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

Eric Antunes — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:33:52 GMT

Hi Sally,

Do you have PHKL_28764 installed?

PS: search for "crash" in this doc...

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

Re: Help Npar crashed ....

Coolmar — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:44:28 GMT

HP helped out and the firmware needs to be upgraded again.

Thanks for all the help!