Diagnostics Overview Guide

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Diagnostics Overview

Introduction..............................................................................................................................2

Server Hardware Diagnostics Overview..........................................................................................2

Online Diagnostic Utilities............................................................................................................2

System Fault Management ........................................................................................................3

Processor Status Information...................................................................................................3

Memory Status Information....................................................................................................4

Temperature and Cooling Devices Status Information...................................................................5

Voltage and Power Supply Status Information............................................................................6

Online Diagnostics..................................................................................................................7

EMS Hardware Monitors.......................................................................................................7

Support Tools Manager........................................................................................................8

Offline Diagnostic Utilities............................................................................................................9

Offline Diagnostic Utilities for Integrity Servers.............................................................................10

Offline Diagnostic Utilities for HP 9000 Systems..........................................................................10

Summary of content (11 pages)

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Diagnostics Overview Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 2 Server Hardware Diagnostics Overview.......................................................................................... 2 Online Diagnostic Utilities ............................................................................................................ 2 System Fault Management ........................................................
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Introduction HP is committed to ensuring maximum operational uptime for the HP-UX operating system. Because server hardware components can fail causing reduced server performance or even server downtime, HP provides a suite of online and offline softwarebased diagnostic utilities. You can use these utilities to validate, provide information about, and monitor the status of common hardware components.
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System Fault Management You can use the System Fault Management (SFM) utility on a system running HP-UX to dynamically query for status and property information about common hardware components: • Processor • Memory • Temperature and cooling devices • Voltage and power supply SFM also monitors supported hardware components for the occurrence of any unusual activity, called an event.
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The following figure shows the property configuration information that is displayed for processors: Memory Status Information The following figure shows the status information that is displayed for memory: 4
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The following figure shows the property configuration information that is displayed for memory: Temperature and Cooling Devices Status Information The following figure shows the status information that is displayed for temperature: 5
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The following figure shows the property information that is displayed for cooling devices: Voltage and Power Supply Status Information The following figure shows the status information that is displayed for voltage: 6
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The following figure shows the property information that is displayed for power supplies: For more information about SFM, see the Online Diagnostics Administrator’s and User’s Guide and System Fault Management Administrator's and User's Guide.
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• • • • • • • • • Tape products High-Availability (HA) storage systems Fibre Channel SCSI multiplexers Fibre Channel adapters Fibre Channel Arbitrated loop hubs Fibre Channel switches Memory Processor Interface cards Each event that occurs is assigned a severity level that reflects the impact that the event has on system operation. For each event, you can define the method used to direct event notification.
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STM supports the following user interfaces: • Command line • Menu-based • Graphical user interface that color-codes status information as shown in the following figure: For more information about installing, administering, and using STM, see the Online Diagnostics Administrator’s and User’s Guide.
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module for the tests you want to run; ODE selects the appropriate tests to execute on the specified module. The menu-driven interface is available only on 32-bit systems. Offline Diagnostic Utilities for Integrity Servers The following list shows some of the tasks that you can perform on HP Integrity servers and on workstations based on the Itanium processor using the offline diagnostic utilities: • Map out the physical layout of the CPU and its peripherals. • Test peripherals attached to the boot path.
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• • • • • Run various tests when it is not advisable to boot to the operating system first, as is often the case in manufacturing environment. Map out the physical layout of the CPU and its peripherals. Test peripherals attached to the boot path. Test disks, CUP, memory, I/O cards, and selected I/O modules. Use the command-line interface or the menu-driven interface to run the tools on 32-bit systems.