2. TheUse

OS-Defined restart policy

is set to YES

and the operating system

has NO automatic restart policy.

 

Refer

to “Service Processor

Reboot/Restart

Recovery” on page 4-27.

Ÿ Call-Out before restart (Enabled/Disabled)If a restart is necessary due to a system fault, you can enable the Service Processor to call out and report the event. This item is valuable if the number of these events becomes excessive, signalling a bigger problem.

Service Processor Functions and Features

The following section discusses some of the Service Processor functions and features more fully.

The IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 Series supports the following functions:

Built-in Functions

Initialization and Test

Service

Processor

Basic

 

 

 

Instructions

Test

(BIST)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JTAG

System

Chip

 

 

 

 

 

Initialization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error

Data Collection

BIST/POST

errors

and

status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checkstop FIR

data

logout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machine

check

logout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration

CPU

Complex

validation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VPD

Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Management

Reset

and

Reboot

 

on System

 

 

Firmware

fail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reboot

on

system

failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IBM RS/6000 7025 manual Service Processor Functions and Features, OS-Defined restart policy