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Diagnostic utilities for the AIX operating system
AIX provides many diagnostic and maintenance functions, such as:
Automatic error log analysis.
Firmware updates, format disk, and RAID Manager.
For more information on how to perform diagnostics in your IBM BladeCenter
JS23 and JS43 Express using AIX, please see
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/hw/index.jsp?top
ic=/iphau/working01.htm
Diagnostic utilities for the Linux operating system
Linux on POWER service and productivity tools (RAS Tools) include hardware
diagnostic aids and productivity tools for Linux on POWER systems.
In order to do error log analysis in Linux, you need to have the
diagela package
installed.
See Appendix , “IBM service diagnostic aids and productivity tools overview” on
page 546 for more details on the RAS Tools for Linux.
Diagnostics utilities for the IBM i operating system
IBM i only runs in logical partitions on IBM BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 Express,
therefore it sees virtual devices only. In this situation, the errors associated with
hardware failures will not be seen inside the operating system, in the normal
Product Activity Logs (PAL) or System Activity Logs (SAL).
See “IBM i partition diagnostics and errors” on page 483 for a detailed
description on how to gather diagnostic information from an IBM i partition.
Stand-alone diagnostics
When you don’t have any operating system installed in your Blade server, or you
are not able to boot the installed operating systems, it is still possible to run
diagnostic utilities using one of these Stand-alone diagnostic solutions:
AIX-based Stand-alone
Diagnostics CD, which includes all diagnostic utilities
found in AIX.
IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux DVD, which can be used as a Linux Live
DVD, and includes all RAS Tools for Linux. See Appendix , “IBM service
Note: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11) ships a new package called
ppc64-diag for running log analysis on POWER machines. You should install
ppc64-diag package instead of diagela on SLES11.
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