On-Line Diags, STM

[nancy rippey]

Does networking need to be in place in order to run STM?

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Yes. The communication is network based. Network and diagmond must be running.

[Chris Vail]

No, you may use the character-based STM tool known as cstm. It works fine, it does take some time to learn familiarity. The x-based tool xstm is much more intuitive, but does require networking to be up and running.

[Torsten.]

Chris, cstm, mstm and xstm are just different interfaces to diagmond.
Without a running diagmond you have just an interface, but no functionality.

see

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-3898/5992-3898.pdf

Figure 1-2 STM Architecture

[Chris Vail]

Thorsten:
You are correct, that diagmond has to be running. But that was not the question. The question was whether or not networking was running. Cstm runs fine in single-user mode without the network interfaces up and running. It wouldn't be of much value as a tool if it did not work in maintenance mode.

Without the network up, it cannot interface to the diagmond daemons running on other systems. But if diagmond is started manually, then cstm works fine without the network up.

[nancy rippey]

I found that the networking does not need to be in place, just a valid hostname and ip.
Thanks for all the resonponses

[Torsten.]

>> "just a valid hostname and ip."

Please define "networking".