Table Of Contents - IBM Power System POWER7 Series Common Service Procedures

Contents
Safety notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Common service procedures
Starting a repair action .
Powering on and powering off a system .
Primary consoles or alternative consoles .
Determining whether the system has logical partitions .
Separating the 571F/575B card set and moving the cache directory card
Determining which processor is the secondary service processor.
System reference code format description .
System reference code information.
Determining system reference code address formats .
Hardware system reference code formats
Logical address format
Problem reference code formats detected by Licensed Internal Code
Searching the service action log.
Problems with noncritical resources .
Using the product activity log .
System service tools .
Working with a communications trace
Hexadecimal product activity log data .
Examples: Obtaining additional information from hexadecimal reports
Reclaiming I/O processor cache storage .
Dedicated service tools
Accessing dedicated service tools .
Selecting function 21 from the control panel
Control panel function codes on the Hardware Management Console .
Performing an IPL to dedicated service tools .
Performing an alternate IPL to DST (type D IPL) .
Starting a service tool .
IPL type, mode, and speed options
Printing the system configuration list and details of the system bus, main storage, or processor .
Printing the system configuration list .
Printing the details of the system bus, main storage, or processor .
Hardware service manager .
Managing the Advanced System Management Interface
Accessing the Advanced System Management Interface.
Accessing the Advanced System Management Interface by using a web browser .
Accessing the Advanced System Management Interface by using an ASCII terminal .
Accessing the Advanced System Management Console Interface using a management console.
Displaying error and event logs
Setting the system enclosure type .
Setting the system identifiers
Displaying vital product data .
Clearing all deconfiguration errors.
Service functions . .
Working with storage dumps .
Managing dumps .
Performing dumps .
Performing a platform system dump .
Performing a service processor dump.
Copying a dump
Copying a dump by using a management console
Copying a dump by using an AIX command .
Copying a dump by using a Linux command .
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