vPar ID

[Vitek Pepas]

Is there an unique number that identifies vPar partition?
I assume the hardware ID (uname -i) would be the same for all partitions.
I'm looking for HP equivalent of AIX's 'lsattr -E -l sys0 -a systemid'.

[wip]

Hi,

V-Pars have a unique name,which we use while using the vpar commands.Probably an unique ID as well hard coded in every vpar.

Not sure whether the hostname would be unique.Since the CPU Cards are different I assume they can have a different unique host Id or probably the VPAR software handles it.

regards
WIp

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

Each vPar has a unique name.

I am not sure if there is any unique number that identifies vPar partition.

[Ravi_8]

Hi

vpar partion is identified by it's name not by number.
Yes hardware id will be the same for all partitions,

can list all vpar's using
#vparstatus

[Karthik S S]

Vitek,

Hard partitions do have unique hardware IDs but not vPars.

-Karthik S S

[Jannik]

vpar don't have uniq ids. What I usally do is a uname -i and then the name of the vpar given i vparstatus.
The god thing about this is if U have software like Veritas Cluster U only have to per uname -i and not by vpar - 1 license for 1 par with N vpars.

BR,
Jannik

[Dietmar Konermann · Accepted solution]

Vitek,

The getconf(1) command is designed to get the desired information. You should use:

# getconf CS_PARTITION_IDENT

getconf(1) uses confstr(3C) to retrieve _CS_PARTITION_IDENT.

man constr(3C):

_CS_PARTITION_IDENT
Identifier for each partition existing on a machine. Returned as an opaque string of printable ascii characters. For any machine not supporting partitions this value will be same as _CS_MACHINE_IDENT. Comparisons of this value must be made using the string compare functions, see string(3C).

Best regards...
Dietmar.