Online Diagnostics

The Online Diagnostics product delivers the following tools:

EMS Hardware Monitors - EMS Hardware Monitors enables you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products and be alerted of failure or any unusual activities.
The Support Tools Manager (STM) - STM provides a set of online support tools, enabling you to verify and troubleshoot system hardware, and to examine system logs.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

A new option called page is introduced for the map command. When the user types map at the command prompt, the system map output is dumped on the screen. The system map output may run into pages and may not be user friendly. The page option will display a paginated output of the system map.

Type the following command at the cstm prompt to get a paginated output of the system map:

cstm> map page




	NOTE: The functionality of the map command is not altered. When you type `map` at the `cstm` prompt you will still see the system map output, which is not paginated.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

The kernel modules will not include compiler warnings.
Online Diagnostics has been enhanced to include the Interface Expansion Program (IEP) for large username, groupname, PIDs, and nproc.
Online Diagnostics is enhanced to support additional features of HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), such as support for notification of events due to dynamic CPU migration.
Online Diagnostics supports the following new features:
- Diagnostics support for agile view of devices
- Diagnostics support for reporting extended hardware path of devices
- Diagnostics support for reporting recovered Machine Check Aborts (MCA)
- Diagnostics support for rx7640, rx8640, SD16B, SD32B, SD64B, rx3600, and rx6600 based machines
Online diagnostics supports the Automatic Error Recovery feature.
Online diagnostics supports the PCI Online Addition and Deletion (PCI OL*) operations.

Impact

You will be able to use the new APOLLO host bridge adapter for legacy PCI functionality.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information, see the following documents, available at http://www.docs.hp.com/en/diag.html:

EMS documentation
- Data Sheets
- EMS Hardware Monitors Quick Reference Guide
- EMS Hardware Monitors User’s Guide
- EMS HW Monitors for Hitachi Systems Running HP-UX
- Event Descriptions
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Multiple-View (Predictive-Enabled) Monitors
- Overview
- Quick Start: Anatomy of a Monitor (Controlling and Learning About Monitors)
- Requirements and Supported Products
- Release Notes
STM documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Quick Reference
- Release Notes
- STM Online Help
- STM Overview
- STM Tutorial

Obsolescence

As of May 2005 (HP-UX 11i v2) and September 2005 (HP-UX 11i v1), tape drives are no longer supported. On HP-UX 11i v3, no tape drives are supported by Online Diagnostics. Although some of the Support Tools Manager (STM) tools may function with tape drives, they are not supported. The diagnostic tools and utilities that support these devices are HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools (L and TT). These tools are available at http://www.hp.com/support/tapetools.