- Overview
- Launching and Using IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities
- Documentation
- Changes
- Known Problems
The IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD is a comprehensive offline diagnostic solution. The CD includes a suite of diagnostic tools belonging to the Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE) plus a collection of other useful diagnostic utilities.
The ODE platform enables users to troubleshoot a system that is running without an operating system or cannot be tested using the online tools. The offline environment is also useful for some types of testing in which it is not desirable to have to boot the system first.
You use ODE tools on HP Integrity servers and Itanium-based workstations just as you would on the PA-RISC computers. The syntax and operation is the same; the only differences are the names of the tools and the way that ODE is launched.
The additional diagnostic utilities provided on the CD allow you to run other, non-ODE based diagnostics that are helpful in identifying problems with your server or workstation.
Launching and Using IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities
There are two ways to launch IPF ODE: either from CD-ROM or from the HP Service Partition (HPSP) -- a special disk partition that is available when the operating system is not running.
ODE provides a common, user-friendly interface for diagnostics and utilities developed to run in your environment. You have the choice between a pure command line interface and a menu-driven interface. The command line interface allows you to select specific tests and/or utilities to execute on a specific hardware module. The menu-driven interface allows you to specify the hardware module to be tested and ODE selects the appropriate tests to execute on the module.
For more detailed information on launching and using IPF ODE, see the web page "Diagnostics":
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/NOTE: If you do not have the most current version of the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD, refer to the documentation provided with your current version of the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD.
For the latest and most complete information on the current release of the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD, see the web page "Diagnostics":
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/NOTE: If you do not have the most current version of the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD, refer to the documentation provided with your current version of the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD.
Changes in the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD for the June 2004 release include:
- N/A
Changes to each tool are described below. (Tools are listed in alphabetical order.)
- CD_Installer
- The copy function was modified to improve the copying time of data from the CD to the HP Service Partition (HPSP).
- CPUDIAG
- There is an issue with the CPUFREQ command. Due to a chip errata on the DS1501/DS1511 real time clock, the CPUFREQ command may return a frequency value of 0.00 MHz for a CPU. This is due to the real time clock returning an invalid value when its registers are read. In order to reliably read from the real time clock, the registers have to be read twice. Version B.00.56 of CPUDIAG includes the code to do this. CPUFREQ now returns correct data.
- IODIAG
- Fixed a bug that displayed the card name (FC/LAN combo card).
- Added functionality to display exactly which cards are selected for testing after sel/desel commands are issued.
- MAPPER
- Displays "processor" nodes in IO tree.
- Fixed problem JAGaf17405: LBA numbering is corrected for cx2600, rx2600, rx2620 and zx6000.
- Supports Emulex FC cards LP1050 and LP1050DC if EFI driver ME300A8.PRG is flashed on the card.
- PLUTODIAG
- Changed the way Base and Mask registers are tested; the registers are treated as pairs when pattern testing. Removed Section 2, subtest 25.
- Fixed PLUTODIAG interaction with Broadcom driver (DB1141).
- FC2p2g
- Added support for the HP AB465A HBA.
- Fixed ER37315. Invalid data entry will no longer "zero out" numeric fields.
- Disabled the Beacon feature in the driver and in Efiutil.
- The driver now performs range checking for numeric fields in DriverConfiguration and DriverDiagnostics.
- The driver now prints error messages for invalid answers to y/n questions. These questions are in DriverConfiguration and DriverDiagnostics.
- Pre-enablement for OpenVMS boot.
- Efiutil changes:
- Added test to only perform inquiry page 83h on disk devices.
- Added test to only perform read capacity on disk devices.
- Changed scsi passthru call to print error reason instead of error code.
Changes to Platform and Interface
- N/A
- CIODIAG2
- Do not run CIODIAG2 without rebooting the machine if an ftp script has been executed. Failure to do so will cause the LAN tests to generate an MCA.
- COPYUTIL
- Does not support Agilent FC cards.
- Only supports up to 4096 devices.
- DFDUTIL
- Only supports up to 4096 devices.
- EFIUTIL
- Version 1.18 of the EFI driver does not support boot from the A6826A HBA.
- PERFVER
- Do not run section 2 test for zx2000.
- Only supports up to 4096 devices.
- PLUTODIAG
- This version assumes that the system has PLUTO 2.0 or later version.
- REODIAG
- Sections 3, 5.11 and 5.12 will not run if the ftp network driver is loaded.
- To run Sections 3, 5.11 and 5.12, reboot the cell without starting the ftp network driver.
- If Sections 3, 5.11 and 5.12 are running, ftp access will not work until the machine is rebooted.
- Sections 3.1 and 3.3 will not run if the pxe network driver is loaded.
- REODIAG checks for VenMsg(0C8AFAFB-2A49-43AA-A449-5B2FD20AE6C8) when excuted from RAMDRIVE. This value must be present for REODIAG to work from RAMDRIVE.