Offline Diagnostics Environment Administrator's and User's Guide

About This Document
The Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE) provides a support tools platform that enables you
to troubleshoot a system that is running without an operating system. With the ODE you can
test systems that cannot be tested using the online tools.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for HP service and support personnel and system administrators
who manage the following systems:
• HP Integrity servers and workstations based on the Itanium® processor
• HP 9000 servers and workstations
Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and
configuration.
This document is not a tutorial.
New and Changed Information in This Edition
This is a new manual. Some of the information it contains came from the following documents
and supersedes those documents:
• ODE: Overview
• Overview Guide: Itanium Processor Family (IPF) Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD
• Overview Guide: PA-RISC HP 9000 Offline Diagnostics Environment CD
• ODE: Frequently Asked Questions
Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 “ODE Overview” Provides an overview of the offline diagnostics
environment.
Chapter 2 “Using ODE on Integrity
Servers and Itanium Workstations”
Describes the ODE tools for the Integrity Systems and
Itanium workstations and tells you how to obtain and
install them.
Chapter 3 “Using ODE on HP 9000
Systems”
Describes the ODE tools for HP 9000 systems and tells you
how to obtain and install them.
Chapter 4 “Performing Common
ODE Tasks”
Provides examples of using ODE tools to perform common
tasks and how ODE reacts when it detects a problem.
Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Command
A command name or qualified command phrase.
Variable
The name of a placeholder in a command or other syntax display that you
replace with an actual value.
Filename
The name of a file or directory.
User input
Commands and other text that you enter.
NOTE A note contains additional information to emphasize or supplement important
points of the main text.
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