Scripted re-partiononing of Integrity frames

[Ron Cohen]

Hi
We have some Integrity servers used for testing and DR. In case of DR the frames are repartitioned to DR functionalities. However, this process is not stable due to the complexity of the frames (power off chassis, move cells, power off/on CPUSs etc. - yes, NPARs) and we experienced various problems due to human errors. I thought to automate the process via scripting (expect), and - before reinventing the wheel - would like to know if someone already did it, and ready to share his/her experience/code?
_rony

[Torsten.]

Hi Ron,

it's really sometimes a complex task to configure such a complex.

In most cases it is done from a running partition, but if you don't have such a partition during your re-config, you have a problem.

The factory does it via the MP, but a normal user can't.

This may be a work around:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01326041&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

[PeterWolfe]

You can use the par* commands from any remote sytem (HP-UX, Windows, etc). The doc Torsten pointed to was specific to the windows version of the commands but the technique is the same for all OS's where the par* commands can run. So as long as you configure IPMI over Lan you can script from a remote system. That can be more convenient than setting up/booting an initial partition and managing from there.

[Ron Cohen]

Thanks. Will check both.