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monarch	Also known as the boot processor. The main controlling core of the operating system. This core
processor	is designated as CPU 0. The LPMC monitor does not deactivate or replace a failing monarch
	processor.
nPartition	Also known as a hard partition. A partition in a cell-based server that consists of one or more cells
	and one or more I/O chassis. Each nPartition operates independently of other nPartitions and
	either runs a single instance of an operating system or is further divided into virtual partitions.
nPartition	The WBEM services provider for nPartition information about cell-based servers.
Provider
online activation	The ability to activate a deactivated core using Instant Capacity software while HP-UX or
	OpenVMS is running. No reboot is required. This is done with the icapmodify command, or,
	in a virtual partition, the vparmodify command. Online activation is the default behavior of
	the Instant Capacity software.
partition	A subset of server hardware that includes core, memory, and I/O resources on which an operating
	system (OS) can be run. A partition can be either a software partition (virtual partition) or a hard
	partition (nPartition). This type of partitioning allows a single server to run an OS independently
	in each partition with isolation from other partitions.
	See also nPartition, virtual partition.
Pay per use	Also called PPU. The HP software product that is a part of the HP Utility Pricing Solutions
	program. The customer acquires a specific hardware platform and number of cores and then
	is charged for usage of the cores based on system demand.
processor	The hardware component that plugs into a processor socket. Processors can contain more than
	one core.
reboot for	The process of rebooting an nPartition so that all active cells in the nPartition are reset with
reconfiguration	boot-is-blocked(BIB) set. When the operating system running on the nPartition has finished
	shutting down, these cells begin their power-on self-test sequence, then wait for BIB to be
	cleared by the Service Processor. When all of the cells in the nPartition complete self-test, the
	Service Processor boots the nPartition.
	On the HP-UX operating system, reboot for reconfiguration is performed using the reboot or
	shutdown command with the -Roption. Do not use the -Hoption to ensure that the nPartition
	automatically reboots after reconfiguration.
	See also shutdown for reconfiguration.
Right to Use	See RTU.
rights migration	On a GiCAP system, the transfer of core, cell, or memory usage rights by deactivating cores,
	cells, or memory in an active partition and activating them elsewhere in a GiCAP group. Rights
	migration cannot be performed on an inaccessible partition. Migrated usage rights do not expire.
	Rights migration is also used to describe the activation and deactivation sequence used for load
	balancing partitions of a single server.
rights seizure	The acquisition of core usage rights from a failed partition on a GiCAP group member, which
	might be off line because of some disaster, transferring them to the Group Manager to make
	them available to other group members. Seized usage rights from a fully unavailable member
	normally expire after a period of time and revert to the original member from which they were
	seized.
RTU	Right to Use. A type of codeword used to activate and adjust available usage rights for Instant
	Capacity components (memory, cell board, or core). An RTU codeword can be applied only to
	the system for which it was purchased, and the application of an RTU codeword adjusts the
	number of component-specific usage rights on the system.
	See also codeword, usage rights.
Service Processor	An independent support processor for HP servers that support nPartitions. The Service Processor
	provides a menu of service-level commands plus commands to reset and reboot nPartitions
	and configure various parameters.
	In HP servers, the Service Processor is sometimes called the Management Processor (MP) or
	the Guardian Service Processor (GSP).

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