HP Proliant ML350 Generation 3 - Diagnostic Tools; Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview

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Diagnostic Tools
This chapter provides an overview of the software and firmware diagnostic tools available for
the HP ProLiant ML350 Generation 3 server.
Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview
The following utilities were developed to assist in diagnosing problems, testing the hardware,
and monitoring and managing the server hardware.
Table 3-1: Diagnostic Tools
Tool Description How to run it
Diagnostics Utility Utility to assist testing and/or verifying operation
of HP hardware. If problems are found, the
Diagnostics Utility isolates failures down to the
replaceable part, whenever possible.
Diagnostics and utilities must be
accessed when a system configuration
error is detected during Power-On
Self-Test (POST). For a complete list of
POST error messages, refer to the
Servers Troubleshooting Guide.
Diagnostics software is also available
on the HP SmartStart software CD. A
Diagnostics diskette may be created
from the SmartStart software CD.
Diagnostics can then be run from the
diskette.
Insight Manager
application
A client/server application that remotely
manages HP systems in a network
environment. Reports hardware fault conditions
(both failure and prefailure) and collects data for
reporting and graphing.
For more information, refer to the HP
Insight Manager User Guide.
Documentation for Insight Manager is
available on the Management CD in
CD-ROM DRIVE: \OVERVIEW.HLP
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