Chapter 7 Maintenance Operation; Overview - Hitachi HF-BX1000 Instruction Manual

CHAPTER 7 MAINTENANCE OPERATION

This chapter describes maintenance operations that use the Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability (RAS) features of this equipment.

7.1 Overview

RAS features are designed to achieve highly reliable features of the equipment. The following
table shows an overview of the RAS features of this equipment.
Monitoring
GUI features setting
Status check
Control
Library functions
Maintenance
/Failure
analysis
Simulation
<Monitoring>
(1) Hardware status monitoring
Monitors the hardware status of this equipment including the status of the fans and drives
as well as the temperature inside the chassis.
(2) Watchdog timer monitoring
This function monitors the operation of the OS or user programs using a watchdog timer
installed in this equipment. It also provides library functions to use the watchdog timer.
Category
GUI display
Notification
Shutdown
/System reset
/ Startup
suppression
Memory dump
related
Item
Hardware status monitoring
Watchdog timer monitoring
RAS setup window
Hardware status window
Event notification
Popup notification
Status display digital LEDs
Remote notification
Status acquisition using library functions
Automatic shutdown
System reset
Shutdown using library functions
Startup suppression when severe failure
occurs
Controlling general purpose external
contacts
Controlling the status display digital LEDs
RAS library
Memory dump collection
Log information collection window
Maintenance operation support commands
Logging the trend of the temperature inside
the chassis
Hardware status simulation
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7. MAINTENANCE OPERATION