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Power On/Off Cell

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»Index
»Assistance
»Overview
»Features & Capabilities
»About Partitioning
»Starting & Stopping
»Complex Scope
»Partition Scope
»Cell Scope
»I/O Chassis Scope
»Actions
»Set Complex Name
»Analyze Complex Health
»Clear All LEDs
»Show Complex Details
»Create nPartition
»Assign Cell(s)
»Delete nPartition
»Modify nPartition
»Unassign Cell(s)
Power On/Off Cell
»Turn On/Off Cell LED
»Power On/Off Chassis
»Turn On/Off Chassis LED
»I/O Slot Actions
»Show Log File
»Status Indicators
»Messages
»Release Notes
»About Partition Manager
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Requirements
» Command Preview
» Waiting for Cell to Power On
» Error Messages

These actions power on or power off the selected cell.

Requirements

The following rules apply to powering on or off a cell.

  • The CellPower On Cell action is only enabled when a single cell is selected, and that cell is in a powered-off state.

  • The CellPower 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 ToolsRefresh 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 ToolsRefresh Data from the actions menu.

For more information, refer to refreshing the data.