Determine size/quantity of memory in system without shutdown

[Layne Burleson_1]

Is there any way in VMS to determine what size and how many memory chips are in the Alpha server?

[Bojan Nemec]

Layne,

Simply do a show memory/physical command at the DCL prompt.

Bojan

[Ken Robinson]

That command won't tell her the number of memory chips in her system, it will only display the total.

[Antoniov.]

Hi Layne,
AFAIK is not possible. If you have no user connected and you can access to console you caN type Ctrl + P to enter into SRM; then you can type >>>SHOW MEMORY commands and >>>CONT to resume VMS.
Remember, after Ctrl + P, system halts (all processes stop) and sometimes this operatione may be dangerous.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Volker Halle · Accepted solution]

Layne,

OpenVMS itself cannot do this, but DECevent and/or Compaq Analyse/SEA (from WEBES) may be able to decode the FRU table:

$ ANAL/SYS
SDA> CLUE FRU
FRU Table written to CLUE$FRU.SYS file, use COMPAQ Analyze or DECevent to analyze.
SDA> Exit
$ diagnose clue$fru.sys
...

Depending on the type of Alpha system platform and the version of DECevent or CA/SEA, it might tell you this data in the memory FRU packet.

Volker.

[Layne Burleson_1]

Volker -
You are the best! That's exactly what I was looking for.

Layne

[Martin Vorlaender]

Layne,

>>>
Volker - You are the best!
<<<

I agree - Volker's deepness of knowledge baffles me again and again.

It's up to you to honor his helpfulness in this forum, see
http://europe.itrc.hp.com/service/help/forums.do#28

cu,
Martin

[Layne Burleson_1]

Thanks again everyone! Especially Volker!