HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

For a discussion on what happens when the HP-UX system crashes, and the elements
of the crash dump cycle, read the section called “Abnormal Shutdowns” in the HP-UX
System Administrator’s Guide: Overview volume.
Beginning with HP-UX 11i version 3, the preferred way to configure the dump behavior
and dump devices on your system is to use the crashconf command. For details on
using crashconf, see the crashconf(1M) manpage.
For additional information about configuring your system for crash dumps, see the
following manpages:
• ioscan(1M)
• fstab(4)
• alwaysdump(5)
• dontdump(5)
• dump_compress_on(5)
• dump_concurrent_on(5)
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