Troubleshooting; Nmi Functionality - HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen10 Plus Maintenance And Service Manual

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5. Type the serial number, and then press Enter

6. Select Product ID, and then press Enter

The following warning appears:

Product ID is modified only by qualified service personnel. This value must match the product

ID located on the chassis.

7. Type the product ID, and then press Enter

8. From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > Date and Time.

9. Configure the date and time settings:

Date (mm-dd-yyyy)—Enter the date in a month-day-year (mm-dd-yyyy) format.

Time (hh:mm:ss)—Enter the time in a 24-hour format (hh:mm:ss) format.

Hour Format—Select either a 12- or 24-hours format. (This menu is supported in Gen10 Plus and later servers.)

Time Format

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) —Calculates the time stored in the hardware real-time clock (RTC) from the associated Time

Zone setting.

Local Time—Removes the use of the Time Zone setting. This option is useful for addressing interaction issues in Windows

operating systems set in legacy BIOS boot mode.

Time Zone—Select the time zone for the system.

Daylight Savings Time—Select whether to enable DST in the system time setting.

10. To confirm and save the settings, press F12

The server automatically reboots.

Results

The installation is complete.

Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting resources

NMI functionality

An NMI crash dump enables administrators to create crash dump files when a system is not responding to traditional debugging methods.

An analysis of the crash dump log is an essential part of diagnosing reliability problems, such as hanging operating systems, device drivers,

and applications. Many crashes freeze a system, and the only available action for administrators is to cycle the system power. Resetting the

system erases any information that could support problem analysis, but the NMI feature preserves that information by performing a

memory dump before a hard reset.

To force the OS to initiate the NMI handler and generate a crash dump log, the administrator can use the iLO Generate NMI feature.

Enter.

F12.

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