HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

General System Administration

Diagnostics

Chapter 4

Compatibility

The Itanium-based ODE diagnostics are compatible with the following systems:

• hp Integrity Superdome

• hp Integrity rx8620

• hp Integrity rx7620

• hp Integrity rx4640

• hp Integrity rx5670

• hp Integrity rx2600

• hp workstation zx6000

• hp workstation zx2000

Performance

There are no performance issues.

Documentation

Further information can be found in the documentation directory on the Offline

Diagnostics and Utilities CD, as well the ODE Web site:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ode/ode_over.htm.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

Online Diagnostics

Online diagnostics for HP-UX 11i v2 include:

EMS Hardware Monitors allow you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of

hardware products and be alerted immediately if any failure or other unusual event

occurs. The EMS Hardware Monitors are started automatically with no user

intervention.

Support Tools Manager (STM) is the platform for executing online diagnostics. The

commands to start it are xstm (GUI interface), mstm (menu-driven interface), cstm

(command line interface), or stm (general).

Summary of Change

CPU, Memory, Core HW and System tools and monitors have been modified to support

all current systems releasing on HP-UX 11i v2. Additionally, I/O tools and monitors have

been modified to support new cards and new peripherals on these current systems.

Details of the changes are described below:

• New CPE monitor. Monitors corrected platform errors. See customer documentation

at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/.

• New FPL monitor. Monitors forward progress logs. See customer documentation at

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/.