IBM Nways 2216, Service And Maintenance Manual

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Manipulating the Dead Man Timer
This utility allows you to selectively enable or disable the dead man timer. The
dead man timer has a granularity of 0.25 seconds and expires in 10 seconds. This
tool would be useful in some troubleshooting procedures.
1
Select 10. Manipulate Dead Man Timer from the utilities panel.
2
A Dead Man Timer Options panel is displayed. From this panel you can
enable or disable the timer.
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Nways System Firmware
Version 1.0
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System Management Utilities
Select one:
1. Set Supervisory Password
2. Enable Unattended Start Mode
3. Disable Unattended Start Mode
4. Remove Supervisory Password
5. Update System Firmware
6. Display Error Log
7. View or Set Vital Product Data
8. Copy Remote Files
9. Remote Initial Program Load
10. Manipulate Dead Man Time+---------Dead Man Timer Options---------+
11. Remote Initial Program
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12. Change Management | 1. Enable Dead Man Timer |
13. Prepare Hard Disk | 2. Disable Dead Man Timer |
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Enter - Esc=Quit - | Enter - Esc=Quit - F1=Help - |
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Figure 4-16. Manipulate Dead Man Timer Panel
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