CHAPTER 5 Work after Operating System installation 5.3 Setting of sadump

The sadump setting is executed on the BIOS set-up menu.

Before the setting is executed, it is necessary to reserve the area of the damp device which becomes the collection address of dump. When there is a system fault, the register information and memory contents are output to the dump device. Due to this reason, the capacity of the device that performs dump output is determined, so as to match the memory size. The required area is obtained by the estimation given below and it is reserved.

Amount of memory installed +512 MB

The dump device can use the disk and the disk partition. In case of dump device created for the disk partition, create the disk partition when installing the operating system.

In case of setting the device on ETERNUS to dump device. It is necessary to execute UEFI driver setting in advance.

For the details of setting procedure see, PRIMEQUEST 1000/2000 Series SAN Boot Environment Configuration Manual (C122-E155).

All the screenshots are display examples. The display contents differ according to the system configuration.

For the details of sadump settings, see “Chapter 5 Setting of sadump environment” of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tool Reference (C122-E177EN).

All the windows given here are display examples. The display contents differ according to the system configuration.

Operations

1.Device Manager menu of UEFI is displayed.

For the details of device manager menu display, see, “Chapter 3 UEFI Menu Operations” of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tool Reference (C122-E177EN)

FIGURE 5.1 Example of Device Manager Menu

2.Select [sadump Configuration] and press [Enter] key Main menu (sadump) is displayed

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