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■ Pc-Check – Accessed through Oracle ILOM, the DOS-based Pc-Check utility tests
motherboard components such as processor, memory, and I/O, as well as ports
and slots. If enabled through Oracle ILOM, this utility will run each time the
system powers on. For information about Pc-Check, refer to the Oracle X86 Servers
Diagnostics, Applications, and Utilities Guide for Servers With Oracle ILOM 3.1 at
http://www.oracle.com/goto/x86AdminDiag/docs.
■ SNMP– Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps are generated by
the SNMP agents that are installed on the SNMP devices being managed by
Oracle ILOM. Oracle ILOM receives the SNMP traps and converts them into
SNMP event messages that appear in the event log.
■ POST – Power-on self-test (POST) performs diagnostics on system components
upon system power-on and resets to ensure the integrity of those components.
POST messages are displayed and logged in the BIOS event logs. POST works
with Oracle ILOM to take faulty components offline, if needed.
■ Oracle Solaris OS Diagnostic Tools
■ Oracle Solaris OS Predictive Self-Healing (PSH) – The PSH technology
provides automated diagnosis of error events encountered with the processor,
memory subsystem, and integrated I/O subsystem during runtime. The ability
of PSH to off-line faulty processors and retire memory pages during runtime
enhances system availability and prevents future interruptions. The Oracle
Solaris OS PSH technology in conjunction with ILOM and BIOS provide
extensive fault management architecture for placing processors offline and
disabling DIMMs.
■ Log files and console messages – These items provide the standard Oracle
Solaris OS log files and investigative commands that can be accessed and
displayed on the device of your choice.
■ Oracle VTS software – This application exercises the system, provides
hardware validation, and discloses possible faulty components with
recommendations for repair.
The LEDs, Oracle ILOM, Oracle Solaris OS PSH, and many of the log files and
console messages are integrated. For example, Oracle Solaris software will display a
detected fault, log it, pass information to Oracle ILOM where it will be logged, and,
depending on the fault, might cause one or more LEDs to light.
Related Information
■ “About the Sun Server X4-2” on page 1
■ Oracle Solaris OS documentation set at:
■ Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 information library at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/index.html
■ Oracle Solaris 11.1 information library at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/index.html
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