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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

 

 

 

 

 

continued

 

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