Compaq ML350 manual Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview, Tool Description How to run it

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Diagnostic Tools

This chapter provides an overview of the software and firmware diagnostic tools available for the Compaq ProLiant ML350 Generation 3 server.

Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview

The following utilities were developed to assist in diagnosing problems, testing the hardware, and monitoring and managing the server hardware.

Table 3-1: Diagnostic Tools

Tool	Description	How to run it
Compaq Diagnostics	Utility to assist testing and/or verifying operation	Diagnostics and utilities must be
Utility	of Compaq hardware. If problems are found,	accessed when a system configuration
	Compaq Diagnostics isolates failures down to	error is detected during Power-On
	the replaceable part, whenever possible.	Self-Test (POST). For a complete list of
		POST error messages, refer to the
		Compaq Servers Troubleshooting
		Guide.
		Compaq Diagnostics software is also
		available on the Compaq SmartStart™
		software CD. A Diagnostics diskette
		may be created from the SmartStart
		software CD. Diagnostics can then be
		run from the diskette.
Compaq Insight	A client/server application that remotely	For more information, refer to the
ManagerTM application	manages Compaq systems in a network	Compaq Insight Manager User Guide.
	environment. Reports hardware fault conditions	Documentation for Compaq Insight
	(both failure and prefailure) and collects data for	Manager is available on the Compaq
	reporting and graphing.	Management CD in
		CD-ROM DRIVE: \OVERVIEW.HLP
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