Viewing vital product data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Clearing all deconfiguration errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Service functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Managing dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Performing dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Performing a platform system or service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Using the HMC to perform a system dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Using the control panel to perform a system dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Using the ASMI to perform a system dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Performing a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Using the HMC to perform a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Using the control panel to perform a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Using the ASMI to perform a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Copying a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Using an HMC to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Using the AIX command line to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Using the Linux command line to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Using the IBM i5/OS service tools to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Copying a platform system or SP dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Copying a main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Reporting a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Using an HMC to report a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Using the AIX command line to report a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Using the Linux command line to report a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Using the i5/OS service tools to report a main storage or platform system or SP dump . . . . . . . 660
Deleting a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Using an HMC to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Using the AIX command line to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Using the Linux command line to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Using the i5/OS service tools to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Performing an IBM i5/OS main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Using the HMC to perform an IBM i5/OS main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Using the control panel to perform an IBM i5/OS main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Performing a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Using the HMC to perform a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Using the control panel to perform a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Using the ASMI menus to perform a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
Determining the primary or alternate console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Primary console workstation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Find the primary console when the system is operational . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
Find the primary console when the system power is off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
Resetting the service processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Resetting the managed system connection from the HMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Checking for a duplicate IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Running the online and eServer stand-alone diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Running the online diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Running the online diagnostics in service mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Running the online diagnostics in service mode with an HMC attached . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Running the online diagnostics in service mode without an HMC attached . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Running the online diagnostics in maintenance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Running the online diagnostics in concurrent mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from CD on a server with an HMC attached . . . . . . . 676
Selecting testing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from CD on a server without an HMC attached . . . . . 677
Selecting testing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from a Network Installation Management server . . . . . . 679
Concurrent PCI adapter removal and replacement using AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
Concurrent PCI adapter removal and replacement using Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Prerequisites for hot-plugging PCI adapters in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Verify that the Linux, hot-plug PCI tools are installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
x Power Systems: Service Guide for the IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A, 9407-M15, and 9408-M25)