About This Document
The Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE) provides a support tools platform that enables you to troubleshoot a system that is running without an operating system. With the ODE you can test systems that cannot be tested using the online tools.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for HP service and support personnel and system administrators who manage the following systems:
•HP Integrity servers and workstations based on the Itanium® processor
•HP 9000 servers and workstations
Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration.
This document is not a tutorial.
New and Changed Information in This Edition
This is a new manual. Some of the information it contains came from the following documents and supersedes those documents:
•ODE: Overview
•Overview Guide: Itanium Processor Family (IPF) Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD
•Overview Guide:
•ODE: Frequently Asked Questions
Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
Provides an overview of the offline diagnostics | |
| environment. |
Describes the ODE tools for the Integrity Systems and Itanium workstations and tells you how to obtain and install them.
Describes the ODE tools for HP 9000 systems and tells you | ||
| how to obtain and install them. | |
Provides examples of using ODE tools to perform common | ||
tasks and how ODE reacts when it detects a problem. | ||
Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Command | A command name or qualified command phrase. |
Variable | The name of a placeholder in a command or other syntax display that you |
| replace with an actual value. |
Filename | The name of a file or directory. |
User input | Commands and other text that you enter. |
NOTE | A note contains additional information to emphasize or supplement important |
| points of the main text. |
Intended Audience | 5 |