HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

Workstation/Server Speciﬁc Information

Service Processor (GSP or MP)

Chapter 3

The GSP subsystem interprets various forms of logging information from both ﬁrmware

and software.

Several new software events will be logged, including:

• “Boot Complete” indicator

• Timestamp

• Periodic heartbeat, with:

— timeout value (a time-limit within which another event must be logged before the

system is declared “dead”)

— activity level indicating system usage

• Minimal LED control

In addition to existing four-hex digit chassis codes, the following information is sent with

each event:

• Alert level

• CPU number

NOTE The GSP will not store codes of alert level 0 after PDC's "boot complete" code. All

incoming codes will display on the VFP, but level 0's will not be stored for later retrieval.

This is so the log won't ﬁll up with heartbeat entries.

PDC_CHASSIS, the old ﬁrmware call for old-style, four-hex digit chassis codes, always

produces codes of alert level 0. In order to create new-style chassis codes, the PAT_ call

for CHASSIS must be used.