ProLiant DL740 Server Maintenance and Service Guide

Diagnostic Tools
Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview
The following utilities were developed to assist in diagnosing problems, testing the hardware,
and monitoring and managing HP server hardware.
Table 6-1: Diagnostic Tools
Tool What it is How to run it
Enterprise Diagnostics LX 32
Utility
This utility assists in testing and verifying
operation of HP hardware. If problems are
found, Diagnostics isolates failures down
to a replaceable part, whenever possible.
Diagnostics and utilities are located
on the system partition of the
hard drive and must be accessed
when a system configuration error is
detected during the Power-On
Self-Test (POST). For a complete list
of POST error messages, refer to the
HP Servers Troubleshooting Guide.
Run Enterprise Diagnostic LX32
Utility from the SmartStart 6.2 (or
greater) CD. From the Maintenance
tab select Launch Server Diagnostics
Utility.
System Maintenance Menu The System Maintenance Menu has the
option to run the following utilities:
• Setup Utility—Runs the RO M-Based
Setup Utility (RBSU).
• Inspect Utility—Runs the em bedded
inspection utility. Use this utility to
view system information and save it to
a file on a diskette.
• ROM Diagnostic Utility—Runs the
embedded ROM Diagnostic Utility.
This utility includes the ROM Memory
Diagnostic, CPU Diagnostic, and Boot
Disk Diagnostic tests.
The System Maintenance Menu can
be run by pressing the F10 key at the
end of system boot, just prior to the
operating system loading from the
hard disk. For more information, refer
to the HP ProLiant DL740 User
Guide.
Insight Manager 7 This client/server application remotely
manages HP hardware in a network
environment, reports hardware fault
conditions (both failure and prefailure) and
collects data for reporting and graphing.
For more information, refer to the
Management CD and the Insight
Manager User Guide.
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