vpar and FULL ioscan.

[Paul Torp]

Hi..

I wonder how on do a FULL (enitre npar) ioscan from one of the running vpars..

I tried mstm, and rad -q and vparstatus -A (and all other options).

What i want to do is get the full path of a boot disk on the scsi interface listed by vparstatus -A e.g /1/0/8

I know i can shut down all vpars and run from ISL :hpux /stand/vmunix instead of /stand/vpmon -a, BUT i cant do that..

Anyone know how to get this information?

[Alzhy]

I believe you cannot do a FULL ioscan (listing all of the nPrs device paths from a vPar - as the vPar only sees its allocated device paths.

If what you're after is the full path of the boot disk, then you can use setboot ie:

root@saturn # setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/0/2/0/0/4/0.0.0
Alternate bootpath : 0/0/2/0/0/4/1.0.0

Is this what you need? Are you having difficulty translating vparstatus -v output (which is in the dot notation)?

[Steven E. Protter]

ioscan run in a vpar can only scan hardware assigned to it.

vpar is a virtual hp-ux "machine" and can't see beyond that.

You may be able to get this information from the GSP, which can see across vpars.

Log on the console and use ctrl-b sequence

There is additional information if you boot and take the 10 second prompt and use the INformation command.

SEP

[Paul Torp]

Nelson: setboot get the bootdisk of the CURRENT vpar..
This vpar is running already, right?
I wanna make a new one and i need -a io:/1/0/8/x/x.x.x:BOOT something.
I', gonna use ignite to recover an image.
Have done that before with success, but then i had the initial IOSCAN that i ran BEFORE creating my 1st vpar.

Steven, you are right.. The IN from BCH might do the trick from the console..

I will try that.

[Paul Torp]

nope...

[gsp0] MP:CM>

MP MAIN MENU:

CO: Consoles
VFP: Virtual Front Panel (partition status)
CM: Command Menu
CL: Console Logs
SL: Show Event Logs
HE: Help
X: Exit Connection

cant get the info without rebooting ONE of the partitions.

[Alzhy]

OH.. so you want to know what other available boot paths you have so you can create another vPar. If you can shutdown the nPar/server upon which you currently have your exiting vPars running.. then BCH is your solution - but I think that would be disruptive.

On my Cell Partionables -- I use partstatus to display all my resources. I suppose such will work as well on a non-Cell Partionable servers since partition manager is a requirement for vPar installations..

[Paul Torp]

that was accually the question:
WITHOUT rebooting.

I'm gonna try to guess the path from looking at another vpar running from a similar scsi disk array..

might do the trick.

[Alzhy]

I cannot get the exact syntax from parstatus but you I certainly can by running Partition Manager GUI (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr) from any of your vPar.

Try it.. it'll show you all the resources of the nPar plus the other nPars (if it is cell paritionable).. including the SCSI Paths os the nPar (or the server?).

[Paul Torp]

tnx nelson...
BTW i posted my TODO in upgrading the vpar ..

cya around.

paul