Compaq ML370 manual Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview, Tool What it is How to run it

3-2Compaq ProLiant ML370 Maintenance and Service Guide

Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview

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

Table 3-1

Diagnostic Tools

Tool What it is How to run it

Compaq Diagnostics	A utility to assist testing and/or verifying
Program	operation of Compaq hardware. If
	problems are found, Compaq
	Diagnostics isolates failure(s) down to
	replaceable part, whenever possible.

Diagnostics and Utilities are located on Compaq system partition (if installed) or your hard drive and must be accessed when a system configuration error is detected during Power-On Self-Test (POST). Compaq Diagnostics software is also available on Compaq SmartStart and Support Software CD. A Diagnostics diskette can be created from SmartStart and Support Software CD, and Diagnostics run from diskette.

Compaq Inspect	The Inspect Utility provides a report
Utility	detailing system information.

The Inspect Utility can be run from either the main menu of the System Configuration Utility or the Compaq Diagnostics program.

Compaq Insight	A client/server application used to	For more information, refer to the
Manager	remotely manage Compaq hardware in	Compaq Management CD and the
	a network environment. Reports	Compaq Insight Manager User Guide.
	hardware fault conditions (both failure	More information on viewing and printing
	and prefailure) and collects data for
		the event list can be found in the Compaq
	reporting and graphing.
		Insight Manager section of this chapter.
Compaq Survey	An online information gathering agent	Install Survey from SmartStart, Compaq
Utility	that runs on servers, gathering critical	Integration Maintenance Utility, or from
	hardware and software information	Compaq Management CD.
	from various sources. A utility for
	servers running Windows NT or
	NetWare.
	If a significant change occurs between
	data gathering intervals, previous
	information is marked, and the survey
	text file is overwritten to reflect the
	latest configuration and changes since
	last configuration. This allows a
	historical record of change events for
	server hardware and software.
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