These actions power on or power off the selected cell.
Requirements
The following rules apply to powering on or off a cell.
The
Cell Power On Cell
action is only enabled when a single cell is selected, and that cell
is in a powered-off state.
The
Cell Power Off Cell
action is only enabled when a single cell is selected, and that cell
is in a powered-on but inactive state.
Powering on or off a cell causes any attached I/O chassis
to also power on or off.
You cannot power off an active cell. You must first
make the cell inactive.
Either shut down the nPartition that the cell is
assigned to, or set the cell's “Use On Next
Boot” flag to “No” and
reboot the nPartition.
When running Partition Manager on a local nPartition, or
when connecting via WBEM to a remote
nPartition, the ability to power on or off a cell is affected by
the setting of the nPartition Configuration Privilege.
If the privilege is unrestricted, you can power on and
off cells that are assigned to the nPartition that you are connected to and
free cells. You cannot power on
or off cells that are assigned to another nPartition.
If the privilege is restricted, you can only power on and
off cells that are assigned to the nPartition that you are connected to.
You cannot power on or off free
cells or cells that are assigned to another nPartition.
For more information, refer to configuration
privilege.
When you are using Partition Manager by connecting to the service processor of a
complex via IPMI over LAN, you can power off any inactive cell in
the complex, and you can power on any cell that is currently powered off.
Connecting in this manner requires the IPMI password for the service
processor. See the user
authentication topic for more information.
Command Preview
Partition Manager executes the
frupower(1M)
command to perform these actions. The command that will be executed is displayed
in a dialog prior to execution. If you decide not to execute the displayed
command, click [Cancel]. Otherwise, click [OK] to execute the
command. Any errors returned by the command will be displayed.
Waiting for Cell to Power On
After clicking [OK] to power on a cell, the cell will go into the
“Powering On” state and begin its power-on
self-test process. This can take several minutes to complete.
During this time, Partition Manager displays a progress bar and the expected maximum
amount of time before the cell completes its self-test. The cell should complete
its self-test and go into the “Inactive”
state within the time indicated (before the progress bar fills up completely).
If the power-on self test fails to complete in this time period, there may be a
hardware error.
If you want to continue using Partition Manager while the cell is powering on, click
[Close] to stop waiting. The cell will remain in the
“Powering On” state until it completes its
self-test, but you can perform other actions while this is happening. To find out
if the cell has completed its power-on self test, update the display by clicking
the Partition Manager [Refresh] button or by selecting
Tools Refresh Data from the actions menu.
Error Messages
If the power state of the selected cell has changed since the last complex
scan, an error message will be displayed, indicating that the cell power is
already in the desired state.
Click [OK] to return to the previous view, and update the display by
clicking the Partition Manager [Refresh] button or by selecting
Tools Refresh Data from the actions menu.
For more information, refer to refreshing
the data.
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