Activating The Indicator Light For The Failing Part; Deactivating The Failing-Part Indicator Light; Identifying A Failing Part In An Ibm I System Or Logical Partition; Activating The Failing-Part Indicator Light - IBM Power Systems Series Manual

Activating the indicator light for the failing part

Use these instructions to help physically identify the location of a part you are servicing.
To activate the indicator light for a failing part, complete the following steps:
1. Log in as root user.
2. At the command line, type diag and press Enter.
3. From the Function Selection menu, select Task Selection and press Enter.
4. From the Task Selection menu, select Identify and Attention Indicators and press Enter.
5. From the list of lights, select the location code for the failing part and press Enter.
6. Select Commit. This turns on the system attention and indicator light for the failing part.
7. Exit to the command line.

Deactivating the failing-part indicator light

Use this procedure to turn off any indicator light that you turned on as a part of a service action.
To deactivate the indicator light, complete the following steps:
1. Log in as root user.
2. At the command line, type diag and press Enter.
3. From the Function Selection menu, select Task Selection and press Enter.
4. From the Task Selection menu, select Identify and Attention Indicators and press Enter.
5. From the list of lights, select the location code for the failing part and press Enter. When a light is
activated for a failing part, an I character precedes the location code.
6. Select Commit. This turns off the system attention and indicator light for the failing part.
7. Exit to the command line.

Identifying a failing part in an IBM i system or logical partition

You can activate or deactivate the indicator light by using IBM i to assist in locating a failing part.

Activating the failing-part indicator light

You can search the service action log for an entry that matches the time, reference code, or resource of a
problem, and then activate the indicator light for a failing part.
1. Sign on to an IBM i session, with at least service level authority.
2. On the command line of the session, type strsst and press Enter.
Note: If you cannot get to the System Service Tools display, use function 21 from the control panel.
Alternatively, if the system is managed by a Hardware Management Console (HMC), use the Service
™
Focal Point utilities to get to the Dedicated Service Tools (DST) display.
3. Type your service tools user ID and service tools password on the System Service Tools (SST) Sign
On display and press Enter.
Remember: The service tools password is case-sensitive.
4. Select Start a service tool from the System Service Tools (SST) display and press Enter.
5. Select Hardware service manager from the Start a Service Tool display and press Enter.
6. Select Work with service action log from the Hardware Service Manager display and press Enter.
7. On the Select Timeframe display, change the From: Date and Time field to a date and time prior to
when the problem occurred.
8. Search for an entry that matches one or more conditions of the problem:
v System reference code
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