Displaying error and event logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Setting the system enclosure type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
Setting the system identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Viewing vital product data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Clearing all deconfiguration errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Service functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
Managing dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Performing dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Performing a platform system or service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Using the HMC to perform a system dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Using the control panel to perform a system dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Using the ASMI to perform a system dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Performing a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Using the HMC to perform a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Using the control panel to perform a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Using the ASMI to perform a service processor dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Copying a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Using an HMC to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Using the AIX command line to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Using the Linux command line to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Using the IBM i5/OS service tools to copy a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Copying a platform system or SP dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Copying a main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Reporting a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
Using an HMC to report a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
Using the AIX command line to report a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Using the Linux command line to report a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Using the i5/OS service tools to report a main storage or platform system or SP dump . . . . . . . 639
Deleting a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Using an HMC to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Using the AIX command line to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Using the Linux command line to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Using the i5/OS service tools to delete a dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Performing an IBM i5/OS main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Using the HMC to perform an IBM i5/OS main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Using the control panel to perform an IBM i5/OS main storage dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Performing a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Using the HMC to perform a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Using the control panel to perform a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Using the ASMI menus to perform a slow boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Determining the primary or alternate console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Primary console workstation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Find the primary console when the system is operational . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Find the primary console when the system power is off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Resetting the service processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Resetting the managed system connection from the HMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
Checking for a duplicate IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Running the online and eServer stand-alone diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Running the online diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Running the online diagnostics in service mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Running the online diagnostics in service mode with an HMC attached . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Running the online diagnostics in service mode without an HMC attached . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Running the online diagnostics in maintenance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Running the online diagnostics in concurrent mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from CD on a server with an HMC attached . . . . . . . 655
Selecting testing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from CD on a server without an HMC attached . . . . . 656
Selecting testing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Running the eServer stand-alone diagnostics from a Network Installation Management server . . . . . . 658
Concurrent PCI adapter removal and replacement using AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
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