topic Re: HPUX system exerciser software in Operating System - HP-UX

HPUX system exerciser software

Craig A. Sharp — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:13:59 GMT

We are having issues with our 7420. I am looking for something (preferably free) that will exercise the system memory, cpu's, disks, etc. Our problem is intermittent so I need to do something to find it.

Thanks!

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Dennis Handly — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:19:31 GMT

You might be more specific, a rp7420 or rx7420?
Any reason you don't have HP do this?

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:22:00 GMT

There are Offline Diagnostics available at http://software.hp.com/ that I'd think would include exercising options. I you can exercise components through STM while the system is online also (assuming "Diagnostic and Support Tools" is installed, of course).

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Pete Randall — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:23:23 GMT

How about STM? Like cstm or xstm, maybe?

Pete

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Craig A. Sharp — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:29:10 GMT

I am working with my CE but I am also looking for other packages that might be more user friendly or more powerful. I am using mstm right now.

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Torsten. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:36:05 GMT

What's wrong with stm?

If you run mstm, go to the options menu
-> tool options -> exercise

and adjust the setting as needed. Now select an item (e.g. disk) and run the tool.

Not user friendly enough?

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Torsten. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:52:41 GMT

And BTW, if your CE is an expert, he can also use the expert tool.
;-)

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Bill Hassell — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:00:24 GMT

Do you have the EMS package running? If this is a hardware problem, it should be logged in syslog (assuming default EMS configs). If it is a software problem, do you have a core dump of the program or does it crash the entire system?

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

TwoProc — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:08:38 GMT

For I/O testing I like a little C program called "Bonnie". It's simple and easy to compile on HPUX.

You can find the source for Bonnie, and several other Unix performance testing/stressing programs at:

http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

Torsten. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:15:14 GMT

Maybe the most interesting question: What kind of issues?

Re: HPUX system exerciser software

TwoProc — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:23:24 GMT

Hey... Craig.

This is just a gentle reminder, so please don't take it wrongly in any way. But it's probably about time to go back and assign points to things from the past - in your last 6 or so questions to the group, you've only assigned points to one set of responses. I didn't look further, but there's probably more.

Thanks!