vPar Provider

The HP-UX vPar Provider is a HP WBEM Services for HP-UX provider for extracting information about virtual partitions on a system. As it is a read-only provider, clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations. This provider can be used through a Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) interface.

The vPar Provider always gets the data from the default virtual partition database located at /stand/vpdb or from the database where virtual partitions are booted from. The vPar Provider talks to the nPar Provider to get information of I/O assigned to virtual partitions and to determine whether or not it is running on an nPar. If the nPar Provider is down, then it will not provide this information.

The vPar Provider uses the namespace root/cimv2/vpar. The vPar Provider library and Managed Object Format (MOF) files are stored under /opt/vparprovider/lib and /opt/vparprovider/mof directories respectively.

The vPar Provider is delivered as a library (/opt/vparprovider/lib/libHPVParProvider.1) through the vParProvider bundle. It depends on the HP WBEM Services for HP-UX product.This release of vPar Provider is supported on all HP server systems that support HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars).

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

The vPar Provider has the following features:

It is a WBEM vPar Provider, which displays information about virtual partitions.
Clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it, as it is a read-only provider.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

You can use WBEM-based clients to access the HP-UX vPar Provider and collect information virtual partitions.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

The /opt/vparprovider/doc directory contains the vPar Provider Release Notes and data sheet.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.