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Managing faults, Understanding fault handling options, Server diagnostics overview – FUJITSU SPARC T5440 User Manual

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Managing Faults

These topics describe the diagnostics tools that are available for monitoring and
troubleshooting the server.

This chapter is intended for technicians, service personnel, and system
administrators who service and repair computer systems.

Understanding Fault Handling Options

Server Diagnostics Overview

You can use a variety of diagnostic tools, commands, and indicators to monitor and
troubleshoot a server:

Topic

Links

Background: fault detection methodology

“Understanding Fault Handling Options”
on page 9

Configuring and using the service processor

“Connecting to the Service Processor” on
page 22

Displaying system configuration
information with the service processor

“Displaying FRU Information with ILOM”
on page 24

Configuring POST for diagnostic purposes

“Controlling How POST Runs” on page 26

Detecting system faults

“Detecting Faults” on page 30

Clearing system faults

“Clearing Faults” on page 47

Disabling faulty components to allow the
system to run in a degraded state

“Disabling Faulty Components” on page 50

ILOM commands and equivalent ALOM
CMT commands

“ILOM-to-ALOM CMT Command
Reference” on page 53