topic Re: tombstone analyser in Operating System - HP-UX

tombstone analyser

Kolb — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:00:46 GMT

Hi,
I'm looking for tombstone files analyser (mid-range machine). Could anyone help me?

Re: tombstone analyser

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:49:10 GMT

Hi Kolb,

I do not think there is a publicly available doc that could help you with the analysis of the tombstone files.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: tombstone analyser

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:34:17 GMT

You need 'q4'. Ftp to hprc.external.hp.com. User: contrib Passwd: 9unsupp8

Look under the 'crash' directory for the q4 version for your box/OS.

Re: tombstone analyser

Kolb — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:57:50 GMT

thanks a lot, i will try it

Regards

Re: tombstone analyser

Raj D. — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:30:29 GMT

Hi Kolb,

1] Q4 Analyser.
2] collection script , [ Available from HP ]

Best Regards,
Raj.

Re: tombstone analyser

Raj D. — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:31:04 GMT

Hi Kolb,

1] Q4 Analyser.
2] collection script , [ Available from HP ]
[ included crashinfo binary , and result needs to sent to HP for debug of the file]

Best Regards,
Raj.

Re: tombstone analyser

Sameer_Nirmal — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:03:23 GMT

Hi,

There is no such analayzer available in public to analyze directly looking at those files.

The tombstone files in "/var/tombstones" directory shows various information like HPMC , LPMC etc. in the form of various registers. These registers are from CPU and from various other chips on the system board. Moreover the infomation in these files is "platform specific".

The analysis of those registers could only be done by HP as they know in & out of a specific platform.

The information in the tombstone file is also reflected in the crash dump. The crash dump could be analysed using P4 debugger and "crashinfo" utility.

Bottom line is such anaylsis requires indepth knowledge of a platform and only HP can do it precisely.