Compaq ProLiant 4500 Maintenance And Service Manual page 68

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Diagnostic Tools
The following chart explains how ASR works:
Unattended Server boots the OS
If the Server continues experiencing
hardware/software errors and the
number of ASR cycles exceed the
specified number of recovery
attempts, the Server will log an error
to the Server Health Log and boot
the Compaq Utilities from the system
partition on the hard drive
Figure 3-1. Automatic Server Recovery.
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Hardware/Software error occurs
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Error logged to the Server Health Logs
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OS halts normal operation
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ASR Timer expires
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Server is reset
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All memory is tested
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Bad memory is deallocated to avoid
subsequent faults
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If a modem is installed and paging
is enabled, the Server Failure Notification
pager alert is sent to
the Server Administrator
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---OR--- Server boots the Compaq Utilities on the
system partition on the hard drive
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If a modem is installed, ASR puts the
modem on auto answer so that the
Server Administrator can dial in using
Compaq Insight Manager or third party
terminal emulator software to remotely
run the Compaq Utilities to identify the
source of the fault
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OR
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Local Server Administrator runs Compaq
Utilities from Server console to identify
the source of the fault