HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide, February 2007

Chapter 3

Troubleshooting and Maintenance

Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE)

All HP Fibre Channel adapters support the HP Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE). ODE is an offline

support tools platform for troubleshooting HP/9000 and HP Integrity systems running without an operating

system, or systems that cannot be tested using online tools. The offline environment is also useful for testing

before a system is booted.

ODE provides a user-friendly interface for diagnostics and utilities developed to run in an offline

environment.

ODE has a distributed architecture consisting of several modules. Each module has a specific function and

uses well defined protocols to communicate with the other modules.

You can use either the command-line interface or the menu-driven interface. The command-line interface

enables you to select tests and utilities to execute on a specific hardware module. The menu-driven interface

enables you to specify the hardware module to be tested, then ODE selects the appropriate tests to execute on

the module.

ODE consists of the following:

Test Controller Acts as the user interface and launches the execution of the Test Modules.

Test Modules Diagnostic or utility programs designed to execute within ODE. These

modules exercise or diagnose user-specified hardware units.

System Library (SysLib) A set of common routines for use by both the Test Controller and the Test

Modules. These routines perform I/O, string parsing, and system control.

For more information on ODE, see the Itanium Processor Family (IPF) Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD

Overview at:

http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.html#Offline%20Diagnostics