Read Before Installing MPE/iX Release 7.0 (C.70.00) (30216-90313)

Chapter 1 9

Information You Need Before Installing MPE/iX 7.0

Predictive Support

WARNING Disabling the Predictive datacomm will prevent Predictive from contacting

the HP Response Center to report potential problems.

You should do the following on a daily basis, sometime after the daily scheduled

Predictive run:

1. Log on as manager.sys.

2. Run psconfig.pred.sys;info=”pr ac”.

View the report for errors. Errors marked as Warning(RC) and Informational(RC)

would normally be transmitted to the HP Response Center. If the errors are only

reporting a new installation or ruleset updates, you can ignore them. Otherwise, you

should contact the HP Response Center.

• The memory scanner (MEMSCANP.PRED.SYS) will not work on the A- and N-Class

systems.

Because of this, the installation job has automatically disabled the memory scanner on

MPE/iX 7.0 for A- and N-Class systems only. The version of Predictive initially released

on MPE/iX Release 7.0 uses an older diagnostics library which does not support the A-

and N-Class memory. We expect to release a version of Predictive with full STM

diagnostic support when the ﬁrst Express/PowerPatch is available for MPE/iX 7.0.

The installation job for the patch will be modiﬁed to reenable the memory scanner on all

A- and N-Class systems. This means that Predictive will not be monitoring any memory

errors. Use the cstm information log to view any memory error logs:

1. Log on as MANAGER.SYS

2. Execute the CSTM command.

3. Once you are at a cstm> prompt, enter the MAP command.

4. Look for the line that contains “MEMORY” under the product column.

5. Use the path number for MEMORY in a select command to select memory. The

second column is the Path. For example, if the line with MEMORY is:

18 192 MEMORY (90)

Issue the command SEL PA 192 to select memory.

6. Issue the command info;wait.

7. When the cstm prompt returns, enter the command il (the information log

command can be shortened to il).

8. Press return to continue displaying the log.

Look for entries under the heading Memory Error Log summary. Some single bit

errors are normal. Contact the HP Response Center if you are unsure, or if there

seems to be a lot of errors logged.