
Compaq ProLiant ML350 Generation 3 Server Maintenance and Service Guide
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Diagnostic Tools
This chapter provides an overview of the software and firmware diagnostic tools available for
the Compaq ProLiant ML350 Generation 3 server.
Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview
The following utilities were developed to assist in diagnosing problems, testing the hardware,
and monitoring and managing the server hardware.
Table 3-1: Diagnostic Tools
Tool
Description
How to run it
Compaq Diagnostics
Utility
Utility to assist testing and/or verifying operation
of Compaq hardware. If problems are found,
Compaq Diagnostics isolates failures down to
the replaceable part, whenever possible.
Diagnostics and utilities must be
accessed when a system configuration
error is detected during Power-On
Self-Test (POST). For a complete list of
POST error messages, refer to the
Compaq Servers Troubleshooting
Guide
.
Compaq Diagnostics software is also
available on the Compaq
SmartStart
™
software CD. A Diagnostics diskette
may be created from the SmartStart
software CD. Diagnostics can then be
run from the diskette.
Compaq Insight
Manager
TM
application
A client/server application that remotely
manages Compaq systems in a network
environment. Reports hardware fault conditions
(both failure and prefailure) and collects data for
reporting and graphing.
For more information, refer to the
Compaq Insight Manager User Guide
.
Documentation for Compaq Insight
Manager is available on the Compaq
Management CD in
CD-ROM DRIVE:
\OVERVIEW.HLP
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