topic Re: HP diaganostics prior to reboot in Operating System - HP-UX

HP diaganostics prior to reboot

andrew jones — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:13:00 GMT

Is there any way i can perfrom diags on my hp boxes prior to rebooting them
do they dump to system disk to dat tape??

cheers

Re: HP diaganostics prior to reboot

melvyn burnard — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:16:41 GMT

mstm is the utility to run diagnostics on the HP9000 systems, provided you have the DIAGNOSTIC subsystem installed.
Use swlist to check for this, and then just run mstm.

I am uncertain what you are asking in the second portion of your query. Could you rephrase this perhaps?

Re: HP diaganostics prior to reboot

Patrick Wessel — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:31:51 GMT

Andrew,

There is a tool called ODE on the support media. It may (or may not) be installed on your boot disk. You can access it from ISL. A few of the diagnostics are password protected.

Usually does a system dump to the primary swap and at the reboot it writes the data to the filesystem. But you are able to configure the savecore routine that it dumps the core on tape.

Re: HP diaganostics prior to reboot

Patrick Wessel — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:37:50 GMT

You are able to find information regarding the Offline Diagnostics following this Link:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/systems/#offline

and a small white paper about crash dumps:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/content/syscrash.html