Diagnostics

HP-UX 11i v2 provides a complete set of tools for verifying, troubleshooting, and monitoring HP system hardware, including CPUs, memory, interface cards, and mass storage devices. Diagnostics (also known as Support Tools) in HP-UX 11i v2 include the Offline Diagnostic Environment (ODE) and Online Diagnostics (EMS Hardware Monitors and Support Tools Manager).

The Offline Diagnostic Environment is delivered on the Offline Diagnostics & Utilities CD. Online Diagnostics are delivered in the Operating Environments.

This section covers the following topics:

Offline Diagnostic Environment

The Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE) is an offline support tools platform that enables you to troubleshoot a system that is running without an operating system or cannot be tested using the online tools. The ODE is also useful for some types of testing in which it is not desirable to have to boot the system first.

The Itanium-based ODE includes offline diagnostics and utilities for all current Itanium-based hardware systems, and is delivered separately on the Offline Diagnostics & Utilities CD.

There are no changes to the ODE for the March 2004 release. For changes to the ODE for the initial release of HP-UX 11i v2 (October 2003), including a list of supported hardware, see the HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes, available on the Instant Information DVD and at http://docs.hp.com.

Online Diagnostics

Online Diagnostics for HP-UX 11i v2 include:

EMS Hardware Monitors allow you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products and be alerted immediately if any failure or other unusual event occurs. The EMS Hardware Monitors are started automatically with no user intervention.

Support Tools Manager (STM) is the platform for executing online diagnostics. The commands to start it are xstm (GUI interface), mstm (menu-driven interface), cstm (command line interface), or stm (general).

For a list of hardware newly supported by Online Diagnostics with this release, see “Hardware Enablement Program”.

Summary of Change

The following new EMS Hardware Monitor has been added:
The iSCSI monitor, dm_iscsi_adapter, is designed to monitor the operation of the iSCSI Software Initiator on your system.
The iSCSI Software Initiator is available from the HP Software Depot at http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1452A.
The following new Support Tool has been added:
The IPMI Event Viewer Web Interface Tool is an enhancement to the current command-line driven IPMI Event Viewer. The tool is used to display low-level system log information events through a Web browser interface to the same level of detail as the current command-line interface.

Impact

You will now be able to monitor the operation of the iSCSI Software Initiator on your system.

You will now be able to view IPMI events through a Web browser interface.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information related to support of the iSCSI Software Initiator by EMS Hardware Monitors, see the following Web sites:

iSCSI Subsystem (dm_iscsi_adapter): http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ems/emd_iSCSI.htm
iSCSI (dm_iscsi_adapter Events): http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ems/dm_iSCSI_adapter.htm

For further information about the iSCSI Software Initiator, see the following documents in the “Networking and Communications” area of http://docs.hp.com:

HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Support Guide
HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Release Note

For further information about the IPMI Event Viewer Web Interface Tool, see the Diagnostics (Support Tools) section at http://docs.hp.com.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.