HP-UX Virtual Partitions

By Marty Poniatowski

When a Virtual Partition crashes, a dump file is created in /stand/vmpon.dmp. When the Virtual Partition boots, files are created in /var/adm/crash/vpar. The files have an extension with a number indicating the number of the dump that occurred. For instance, vpmon.1, vpmon.dmp.1, and summary.1 indicate the first set of files that are saved in /var/adm/crash/vpar.

An example of what you might see in /stand and /var/adm/crash/vpar related to dumps are shown in the following listing:

VPARNAME = extraq1 # ll /stand total 100400 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 19 Jul 13 15:04 bootconf drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 2048 Oct 18 11:43 build drwxrwxrwx 5 root sys 1024 Oct 18 13:06 dlkm drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 1024 Oct 18 11:21 dlkm.vmunix.prev -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 3388 Oct 18 13:16 ioconfig -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 82 Jul 13 15:34 kernrel drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Oct 18 13:18 krs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 18 13:16 krs_lkg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 18 13:18 krs_tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 13 15:04 lost+found -rw------- 1 root root 12 Oct 18 13:16 rootconf -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 2035 Oct 18 11:42 system -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 994 Jul 13 15:28 system.01 -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 999 Jul 13 15:56 system.02 -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 994 Jul 13 15:28 system.base drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Jul 13 15:37 system.d -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 2035 Oct 18 10:55 system.prev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22682568 Oct 18 13:16 vmunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22682568 Oct 18 11:04 vmunix.prev -rw------- 1 root sys 8232 Oct 18 13:36 vpdb -rw------- 1 root root 8232 Jul 17 14:11 vpdb.OLD -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 837616 Aug 31 18:59 vpmon -rw------- 1 root root 5078504 Oct 10 10:43 vpmon.dmp <-- vPar dump # ll /var/adm/crash/vpar <-- vPar dump directory total 46464 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Oct 43 count -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16794 Jul 17 13:26 summary.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17953 Jul 18 10:35 summary.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19538 Jul 36 summary.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10012 Oct 43 summary.3 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 855928 Jul 17 13:26 vpmon.0 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 855928 Jul 18 10:35 vpmon.1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 855928 Jul 18 11:36 vpmon.2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 837616 Oct 10 10:43 vpmon.3 -rw------- 1 root root 5078504 Jul 17 13:26 vpmon.dmp.0 -rw------- 1 root root 5078504 Jul 18 10:35 vpmon.dmp.1 -rw------- 1 root root 5078504 Jul 18 11:36 vpmon.dmp.2 -rw------- 1 root root 5078504 Oct 10 10:43 vpmon.dmp.3

The /var/adm/crash/vpar directory has in it the vPar dump-related files for four (0-3) crashes.