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Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature
White Paper prepared by Industry Standard Server Division

First Edition (January 2000)
Document Number 11N8-0100A-WWEN

Summary of Contents for ProLiant 8000

Page 1: ...ndows 2000 8 Microsoft Software subject to change 8 Compaq Software subject to change 9 Where Is the Crash Dump Button located 10 ProLiant 8000 10 ProLiant 8500 11 Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dum...

Page 2: ...tions tested or described may or may not be the only available solution This test is not a determination of product quality or correctness nor does it ensure compliance with any federal state or local...

Page 3: ...can provide critical information for root cause analysis that may be difficult or impossible to obtain through other means A user initiates a Non Maskable Interrupt NMI event by pressing the dump swi...

Page 4: ...NT 4 0 Windows 2000 SCO OpenServer 5 and SCO UnixWare 7 ASR initiates the NMI Crash Dump instead of resetting the machine ASR does not cover cases where the operating system or applications may be exe...

Page 5: ...ments unless customer wishes to configure to ASR crash dump file generation Allows user level settings for an ASR crash dump file generation Compaq Hardware Push button switch is added to Compaq Serve...

Page 6: ...the core dump are determined by operating system specific features The user should refer to SCO System Administration documentation for information regarding tuning the SCO operation system for gener...

Page 7: ...nel in the usual way and reboot the server to activate the new setting How to Set Up NMI Crash Dump Under Windows NT 4 0 Microsoft Software 1 User installs Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 with Service Pack 4...

Page 8: ...mp HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services Sysmgmt Parameters Featu reASR DWORD 0xe11 Disabling ASR NMI Crash Dump HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services Sysmgmt Parameters...

Page 9: ...ASR DWORD 0xe11 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services cpqcsm Parameters Featur eASR DWORD 0xe11 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services cpqss Parameters FeatureA SR DWORD 0...

Page 10: ...utton located Note The NMI Crash Dump button hardware will generate a PCI SERR under all Operating Systems Initiating core memory dumps may be attainable under each individual OS ProLiant 8000 NMI Cra...

Page 11: ...Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature 11 11N8 0100A WWEN ProLiant 8500 NMI Crash Dump Button Figure 4 NMI Crash Dump Button Access from the Rear of the ProLiant 8500 Chassis...

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