Service Processor Functions

This section discusses some of the service processor functions in greater detail service processor supports the functions listed in the following table.

Built-in

Functions

Initialization

and Test

Service

Processor

BIST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Chip

Initialization

 

 

 

Error

Data

Collection

BIST/POST

errors

and

status

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isolation

to

Field

Replaceable

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit

(FRU)

 

on

failure

 

 

Configuration

 

CPU

Complex

 

validation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VPD

Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Management

 

Reset and Reboot on System

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firmware

failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reboot

on

 

system

failure

Local User Function

User

Interface

Local

async

 

console

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text based menus with NLS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operator

Panel

messages

 

 

Power

and

Miscellaneous

Power

On/Off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configurable

 

Reboot

Policy

 

 

Status

and

Data

Access

VPD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error

data

(SP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error

data

(system)

 

 

 

 

Service Processor

Setup

Passwords

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Utilities

 

 

Phone

numbers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language

(NLS)

selection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call-In/Call-Out enable/disable

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Name

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modem

Configuration

 

 

 

Remote

User Functions

Call-Out

(Call

Home)

OS

termination

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reporting

 

 

Boot

failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surveillance

 

failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checkstop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machine check

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify

system

by

name

 

 

Call-In

 

 

 

Power-on through ring-indicate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Password/security

check

 

 

 

 

 

 

Console

mirroring

 

 

 

 

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