Synopsis

The vPars Flexible Administrative Capability feature restricts the usage of specific vPars commands such that they can be successfully executed from only designated virtual partitions.

The specific vPars commands that are restricted are those that can alter other virtual partitions, such as vparmodify or vparreset.

The designated virtual partitions are known as designated-admin virtual partitions and are designated by being explicitly added to the designated-admin virtual partitions list. Virtual partitions that are not in the list are considered non-designated-admin virtual partitions. When a superuser executes a command that affects another partition from within a non-designated-admin virtual partition, the command will fail.

When the flexible administrative capability feature is ON (enabled), a virtual partition can be added to (or deleted from) the list from either the vPars Monitor prompt without a password or the HP-UX shell prompt by superusers who know the flexible administrative capability password.

The flexible administrative capability feature can be set to either ON (enabled) or OFF (disabled) but only from the vPars Monitor prompt (MON>).