HP INTEGRITY RX3600 General Diagnostic Tools, Fault Management Overview, HP-UX Fault Management

Table 5-13 Offline Support Tools List (continued)

Offline Tool	Functional Area
DISKUTIL	Disk test utility (non-destructive)
COPYUTIL	Data copy utility
DISKEXPT	Disk expert utility
IODIAG	I/O diagnostics launch facility (Executes third party diagnostics and runs BIST, if
	available.)
CIODIAG2	Core I/O diagnostic
Specific Card I/O Diagnostics	Card-specific I/O diagnostics/BIST

General Diagnostic Tools

Table 5-14lists genearl diagnostic tools.

Table 5-14 General Diagnostic Tools List

Diagnostic Tool	Description
IPMI Event Decoder	Provides detailed information about IPMI events, such as problem description,
	cause, and action.
System Event Analyzer (SEA)	Program that automatically analyzes system error logs and IPMI SEL events.
	Produces callout reports and CRU information. See
	http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/svctools/webes for information
	about this tool.

Fault Management Overview

Fault management and monitoring increases system availability by moving from a reactive fault detection, diagnosis, and repair strategy to a proactive fault detection, diagnosis, and repair strategy. Fault management does the following:

•Detects problems automatically, as near as possible to when they actually occur.

•Diagnoses problems automatically, at the time of detection.

•Automatically reports a description of the problem in understandable text. This includes the likely causes of the problem, the recommended action(s) to resolve the problem, and detailed information about the problem.

•Ensures that tools are available to repair or recover from the fault.

HP-UX Fault Management

Proactive fault prediction and notification is provided on HP-UX by SysFaultMgmt WBEM indication providers, as well as by the Event Management System (EMS). The Event Management System and WBEM provide frameworks for monitoring and reporting events.

SysFaultMgmt WBEM indication providers and the EMS Hardware Monitors enable you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products, and alert you immediately if any failure or other unusual event occurs. By using hardware event monitoring, you can virtually eliminate undetected hardware failures that could interrupt system operation or cause data loss.

For complete information on installing and using EMS hardware event monitors, as well as a list of supported hardware, see the EMS Hardware Monitors Users Guide at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag

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