HP diaganostics prior to reboot

[andrew jones]

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

[melvyn burnard]

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?

[Patrick Wessel]

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.

[Patrick Wessel]

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