Hi Jimmy,
From the Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) Manual:
Shutting Down or Rebooting a Partition
A virtual partition can be gracefully shut down or rebooted via the HP-UX command shutdown. To ensure that the partition database is synchronized (see Partition Database), execute the vparstatus command prior to executing the shutdown command.
Examples
To shutdown the partition winona1:
winona1# vparstatus
winona1# shutdown -h
After winona1 is shutdown, the partition is in the down state. For more information, see Partition States.
To reboot the partition winona1:
winona1# vparstatus
winona1# shutdown -r
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If a partition has its autoboot attribute set to MANUAL, the partition will only halt and will not reboot when the command shutdown -r (or reboot -r) is given. For more information on the partition attributes, see the vparmodify(1M) manpage and Modifying Attributes of a Partition.
When you need to force a non-graceful shutdown, such as when a partition appears hung, use vparreset. See Resetting a Hung Partition.
The shell commands shutdown and reboot apply only to the OS instance of the virtual partition from which they are executed and do not shut down or reboot any other partition or the vPars monitor.
There is no command to shutdown the monitor. The monitor command reboot (see Using Monitor Commands) applies to the entire computer, causing the entire computer to reboot. For more information on how to shut down or reboot the entire computer gracefully, see Shutting Down or Rebooting the Computer.
Note that if you have multiple partitions, you have to shut them all down...
Shutting Down or Rebooting the Computer
To shutdown or reboot a vPars computer gracefully, you need to do the following:
Log into every virtual partition that is running and gracefully shutdown the partition via shutdown.
There is no command that shuts down all the virtual partitions at the same time. You need to shutdown every partition one at a time. The same is true for rebooting all the virtual partitions.
For our example, if all our partitions were up, we would need to shut them down:
winona1# vparstatus
winona1# shutdown -h
winona2# vparstatus
winona2# shutdown -h
winona3# vparstatus
winona3# shutdown -h
After the last partition is shutdown, you will be at the monitor prompt (MON>) on the console.
To shutdown the computer, use the GSP command PC to power off the computer. Alternatively, you can power off the computer via the physical power switch on non-Superdome computers.
Because no partitions are running and monitor is running only in memory, shutting down the monitor this way does not corrupt the computer's memory.
To reboot the computer, use the monitor command reboot:
MON> reboot
HTH,
Jeff
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