System information

Figure 70. POED Entry
Within the menu shown above you can see some more details about the POED
error. The arrow shows the component that issued the error condition. In our
case it says that there is an error within the adapter configuration. If you click on
the Adapter icon, you will receive the window shown in Figure 71.
Figure 71. POED Entry Details
Within this menu we can see that the error came from adapter slot 3, which
shows that the adapter was not responding during power-on. The configured
adapter has an ID of 8FD6. This can be used to identify the type of adapter that is
missing. This error may have happened, because the adapter is not functioning
properly or is missing. In our case, we simulated this error and removed the
adapter in slot 3 before we powered off this workstation and then on again. You
can see that we can get a lot of very detailed error information from a
workstation, even if the operating system is not running at the time of the failure.
But remember, that you need to have workstations that have a system partition
installed to create this kind of alerts.
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