Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V440 Diagnostics And Troubleshooting Manual page 218

B
banks, memory
physical and logical, 43
POST reference, 43
baud rate
alphanumeric terminal setting, 189
verifying, 191
Big Admin
troubleshooting resource, 106
Web site, 106
BIST, See built-in self-test
BMC Patrol, See third-party monitoring tools
boot process, summary of stages, 8
Boot PROM
function of, 9
illustration of, 9
boot-device variable, use in troubleshooting
booting problems, 159
bootmode diag command (system controller), 91
bounds file, 117
break command (system controller), 172, 177
Break key (alphanumeric terminal), 173, 177
built-in self-test (BIST)
IEEE 1275-compatible, 16, 57, 61
test-args variable and, 17
bus repeater circuit, 3
C
cables
connector board power, 33
DVD-ROM drive, 33
isolating faults in, 33, 40
keyboard and mouse, 195
SCSI data, 34
system configuration card reader, 34
system control keyswitch, 34
central processing unit, See CPU
Cisco AS2511-RJ, See terminal server
clock speed (CPU), 30
connector board power cable, isolating faults in, 33
console command (system controller), 92, 172,
176, 177
console, See system console
consolehistory boot -v command (system
controller)
use in troubleshooting, 134
use in troubleshooting booting problems, 158
use in troubleshooting Fatal Reset errors and
RED State Exceptions, 146
consolehistory run -v command (system
controller)
use in troubleshooting after an unexpected
reboot, 132
use in troubleshooting booting problems, 155
use in troubleshooting Fatal Reset errors and
RED State Exceptions, 144
core dump
enabling for troubleshooting, 113
testing, 116
use in troubleshooting, 113
CPU (central processing unit)
displaying information about, 30
master, 9, 10
numbering of processor modules, 46
D
data bitwalk (POST diagnostic), 10
device paths, hardware, 19, 23
device tree
collecting data from, 37
defined, 15
Solaris, displaying, 24
df -k command (Solaris), 115
diag-device variable, use in troubleshooting
booting problems, 159
diag-level variable
setting, 13
setting for OpenBoot Diagnostics testing, 16
use in troubleshooting hanging system, 161
diagnostic tests
availability of during boot process (table), 32
bypassing, 14
bypassing temporarily, 15, 59
enabling, 57
terms in output (table), 51
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