topic Re: Queries in Operating System - HP-UX

Queries

Dinesh_15 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 02:19:31 GMT

Hi Gurus

Some helps needed ..
1) I heard about something called " TOMB STONE"..
can somebody tell me what is this actually??
If some cook book is there it will be helpful.

2) How to use stm or cstm to check the disk..
I have used the same in Graphics ( Using the reflection s/w in Win Client), but finding difficult in Chracter Mode..
If some body cal list some command with help it will be helpful..

Hope I can get the answers at lightning speed

Rgds
Dinu

Re: Queries

ramkumar — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 02:55:58 GMT

Hi dinu

I don't know abt tomb stone. so i can't help u out for first question

but for second question you can use XSTM

Re: Queries

Franky_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 03:00:00 GMT

Hi,

1.) there are several files under /var/tombstones (with names tsXX) which have HW Diagnostics in it. You can check them for HW - Entries / Errors

2.) You can use cstm in two ways :
type cstm - you'll get a prompt cstm> and then can put in the appropriate commands (see man for more details)
or you can pipe the command
eg. echo "map;sel dev ;il"|cstm

HTH

Regards

Franky

Re: Queries

Franky_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 03:05:55 GMT

Hi,

i forgot to mention, that you can also use "xstm" to have a GUI for cstm.

Regards

Franky

Re: Queries

Sunil Sharma_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 03:41:51 GMT

Hi,

TOMB STONE: I believe these files are used to dignose h/w error.

CSTM cook-book is attached.

Sunil

Re: Queries

Dinesh_15 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 04:48:28 GMT

Hi

Franky ..Thanks for the same..Can u please explain the syntax what u have give with pipe..i.e. echo "map;sel dev ;il"|cstm
..what exaclty this command does??
Please be back..

sunil... Thanks for the PDF file..

I am not closing the thread ..Hope I will get still more answers...I desperately something about Tombstone..

Anybody ..Please

Rgds
Dinu

Re: Queries

Mohanasundaram_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 06:02:53 GMT

Hi Dinesh,

The tombstones is a directory under /var.
When the system boots it copies the contents of the PIM (Processor Information Module) to the /var/tombstones directory under the file name ts99.

The previous file created in the earlier reboot will be moved from ts99 to ts98 before the new ts99 is copied. Therefore you can find many ts* files in this directory.

The presence of these files in itself does not indicate any problem. The PIM records some HPMC (High priorirty Machine Check) if a reboot happens due to any hardware failure.

So, If you encountered a system reboot you can check the contents of this file to understand if there were any hardware issues.

You need to note the timestamp within the file to estimate if the failure is current or an earlier one.

Hope it gives some Idea.

WIth regards,
Mohan.

Re: Queries

Bharat Katkar — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 06:03:47 GMT

Hi Dinu,
See some related docs below:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/A3725-96005/A3725-96005_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/A3725-96005/00/00/39-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/A3725-96005/00/00/39-toc.html&searchterms=tombstone&queryid=20031201-201551

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/32650-90854_top.html&con=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-con.html&toc=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-toc.html&searchterms=tombstone&queryid=20031201-201551

http://www.unixrc.com/docs/swrecover/swrc10.pdf

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/32650-90854_top.html&con=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-con.html&toc=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-toc.html&searchterms=tombstone&queryid=20031201-201551

Also have a look at this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1096887648352+28353475&threadId=286267

Hope all this helps.
Regards,

Re: Queries

Franky_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:53:57 GMT

Hi,

the above mentioned example gives an output for the selected device nr. (e.g. cpu)
It's basically the same as putting the commands at the cstm prompt
cstm
cstm> map
cstm> sel dev (select from map output)
cstm> il

HTH

Regards

Franky

Re: Queries

Dinesh_15 — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:03:40 GMT

Hi Mohan

Thanks for the nice explanation..

Hi Bharat: As usual I have seen in the great forrum , u r in great form Like Tendulkar..
Any how, thanks for the Links , but i am not able to get the Link
http://www.unixrc.com/docs/swrecover/swrc10.pdf ..If possible can u plz attach the pdf file..

Hi Franky..
Thanks again for having the time to share the same..But i am still any how not able to digest the CSTM funda..Please help..
My thing is that
cstm
cstm> map
cstm> sel dev (select from map output)
cstm> il

I understood the above like this ..If not please correct me..

#cstm
this will give cstm prompt
cstm>
cstm> sel dev (select from map output)
This will select the device ..One thing whatb is nr here.
what is il..

Please explain

Rgds
Dinu

Mohanasundaram Oct 4, 2004 11:02:53 GMT 7 pts

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Hi Dinesh,

The tombstones is a directory under /var.
When the system boots it copies the contents of the PIM (Processor Information Module) to the /var/tombstones directory under the file name ts99.

The previous file created in the earlier reboot will be moved from ts99 to ts98 before the new ts99 is copied. Therefore you can find many ts* files in this directory.

The presence of these files in itself does not indicate any problem. The PIM records some HPMC (High priorirty Machine Check) if a reboot happens due to any hardware failure.

So, If you encountered a system reboot you can check the contents of this file to understand if there were any hardware issues.

You need to note the timestamp within the file to estimate if the failure is current or an earlier one.

Hope it gives some Idea.

WIth regards,
Mohan.
Bharat Katkar Oct 4, 2004 11:03:47 GMT 9 pts

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Hi Dinu,
See some related docs below:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/A3725-96005/A3725-96005_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/A3725-96005/00/00/39-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/A3725-96005/00/00/39-toc.html&searchterms=tombstone&queryid=20031201-201551

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/32650-90854_top.html&con=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-con.html&toc=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-toc.html&searchterms=tombstone&queryid=20031201-201551

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/32650-90854_top.html&con=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-con.html&toc=/mpeix/onlinedocs/32650-90854/00/00/61-toc.html&searchterms=tombstone&queryid=20031201-201551

Also have a look at this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1096887648352+28353475&threadId=286267

Hope all this helps.
Regards,
Franky Oct 4, 2004 12:53:57 GMT 7 pts

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Hi,

the above mentioned example gives an output for the selected device nr. (e.g. cpu)
It's basically the same as putting the commands at the cstm prompt
cstm
cstm> map
cstm> sel dev (select from map output)
cstm> il

HTH

Regards

Franky

Re: Queries

Sunil Sharma_1 — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:19:51 GMT

Hi Dinu,

#cstm

cstm> (This is cstm prompt)

cstm>map (This will give you list of devices in server or connected to server)
cstm > select device
(Device Number is the sequence number which you is the first field in the output of previous command. Above command can be written as (cstm> sel dev )

cstm> infolog or il ( It will show the information about device you selected using select command.)

Hope this help you

Sunil

Re: Queries

Dinesh_15 — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:39:43 GMT

Hi Sunil

fantastic.
Thanks a lot ..
Thats what i needed infact.

So let us close the thread..

Have a nice a day..

Rgds
Dinu