System information

system partition can use this function. See 3.1.1, “Alert Manager” on page 95 for
a description on how to define a workstation, so that it is enabled to send POED
alerts. It will send a broadcast package to all systems running the POED
Service. If you have a central systems manager to control all workstations in a
multiple segment network, you need at least one system running the POED
service per segment and forward the alert to the central manager.
Without the POED service on the workstations, the error recovery during the
POST phase runs in the following way:
1. The system detects an error during the POST test.
2. The error code is being displayed on the screen.
3. The system goes to the system partition and loads a test routine.
Now with POED activated in the workstation, it works similar, except that after
going to the system partition, it loads a previously defined network device driver
and sends out a broadcast alert with the error information.
Figure 69. Power-On Error Detect
After the workstations have been defined to send out the error alerts and your
manager has been defined to receive these errors, you are now able to have a
look at the errors that may have happened during POST. See the above figure
for such an alert. In this entry you can see the following details:
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Originator, which is the adapter address of the sending workstation
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Date/Time, which are the appropriate date and time of the error
If you now click on the entry, you get more details (see Figure 70 on page 49).
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