Compaq 113803-001 manual 54Diagnostic Tools

3-54Diagnostic Tools

The following ASR-2 flow chart shows you the sequence of events after a hardware or software error occurs:

Hardware/Software error occurs

Error records in the Critical Error Log, or the Integrated Management Log, depending on your server configuration.

Operating System halts normal

operation

ASR Timer expires

Server is reset

If a modem is installed and paging is

enabled, the Server Failure

Notification pager alert is sent to the

Server Administrator.

Unattended server boots the

Operating System

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If the server continues experiencing hardware/software errors and the number of ASR cycles exceed the specified number of recovery attempts, the server logs an error to the Server Health Log or the Integrated Management Log and boots the Compaq Utilities from the system partition on the hard drive.

Figure 3-1. ASR-2 flow chart

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Server boots the Compaq Utilities on the system partition on the hard drive

If a modem is installed, ASR puts the modem on auto answer so that the Server Administrator can dial in (using third party terminal emulator software) to remotely run the Compaq Utilities to identify the source of the fault.

Or

Local Server Administrator runs Compaq Utilities from server console to identify the source of the fault