IBM H80 Series manual RAID Hot Plug Devices, Local Area Network Analyzer, Action

RAID Hot Plug Devices

This selection starts the PCI SCSI-2 F/W RAID Adapter Service Aid.

Local Area Network Analyzer

This selection is used to exercise the LAN communications adapters (Token-Ring, Ethernet, and (FDDI) Fiber Distributed Data Interface). The following services ar available:

Ÿ	Connectivity	testing between	two network		stations.	Data	is transferred between
	the two stations, requiring the			user	to provide	the	Internet addresses of b
	stations.
Ÿ	Monitoring ring (Token-Ring only). The			ring is monitored for a specified period of
	time. Soft	and hard errors	are	analyzed.

Log Repair

Action

The Log Repair Action task logs

a

repair action

in the

AIX

Error

Log. A

Repair

Action

log

indicates that

a FRU

has been replaced, and error log

analysis

should

be done for any errors logged

before the repair action. The Log

Repair

Action

lists all resources. Replaced resources

can be

selected

from

the

list, and

when

commit

(F7 key) is selected, a

repair

action

is

logged

for

each

selected

reso

Periodic Diagnostics

This

selection

provides

a

tool for

configuring

periodic diagnostics

and

automatic

log analysis. You can select a

hardware resource to be tested

once

a

day,

a

user-specified time. If the resource cannot be tested because

it

is

busy,

e

analysis

is

performed.

Hardware errors logged against a resource can also be monitored

by

enabling

Automatic Error Log Analysis. This

allows

error

log

analysis

to

be

performed

every

time a hardware error is put

into the error log. If a problem

is

detected,

posted to the system console and

a mail message sent to the users

belonging

to

system

group,

containing

information

about

the

failure, such

as

the

service

reque

number.

Chapter 6. Introducing Tasks and Service139 Aids