Sun Microsystems 280R manual Problem Analysis

When to Use the Tools

The following diagram provides an overview of the sequence of events when a local server boots. It illustrates which of the tools you can use at the firmware and at the operating environment levels, when diagnosing hardware and software problems.

Successful diagnosis leads to system performance monitoring and system management at the resource level. A description of RSC hardware and software and the integration with these tools follows.

	Problem Analysis
	no	System	yes
		boots
		?
Firmware				Solaris OE
	Run POST	yes		no
			Fault
			LED lit
			?
no		yes		Run SunVTS
	POST
	failure
	?
Run OpenBoot				Run Sun
				Management
Diagnostics
				Center
		Replace part
no	yes		yes	no
Diagnostic				Hardware
failure				Disk?
?
Software or				Software
disk problem				problem
	Run Solaris Resource Manager		no	System in
	Run Solaris Bandwidth Manager		steady state?
	Run Sun Remote System Control
				yes
	Start Solaris
	monitoring software

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