Text Console Redirection; Virtual Media; Sadump; Sadump Firmware - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series General Description Manual

CHAPTER 4 Functions provided by the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series
4.9 Console redirection
4.9 Console redirection
The console redirection function directs the serial output from a partition to a terminal via a LAN.
The console output to the COM port on a partition is redirected by this function to a terminal connected to a
LAN.
It also posts input from the terminal to the COM port on the partition.

4.10 Virtual media

The virtual media is a function that emulates the storage device that connects other remote storage media
(CD/DVD drive, ISO image, floppy disk, and USB device) to the partition. Up to three devices can be used at
the same time.

4.11 sadump

sadump is supported in the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series (except for PRIMEQUEST 2800B).
sadump is executed for any partition.
It is a memory dump acquiring function for investigating the source an error when the error occurs in RHEL.
sadump provides the procedure to acquire the memory dump even when the memory dump could not be
acquired by the memory dump function (kdump) provided by the RHEL (*1).
*1: When the memory dump could not be acquired during the early stage of booting up and just before shut
down.
sadump is activated by selecting [sadump] in [Partition] → [Power Control] of the MMB Web UI when error
occurs in the OS.

4.11.1 sadump firmware

The sadump is a dump acquiring firmware of the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series (except for PRIMEQUEST
2800B).
It provides a function that will acquire memory dump into the disk partition dedicated to sadump if an error
occurs on RHEL operating system.
It enables investigation of the cause of error that occurred in the OS on the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series and
therefore professional support can be obtained.
The sadump firmware is provided as part of the UEFI firmware, and the dump device can be setup from a
setup dump menu.
For the details of settings of sadump, see '5.3 sadump Setup' of the PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series Installation
Manual (C122-E174EN) and 'Chapter 5 sadump Environment Setup' of the "PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series
Tool Reference" (C122-E177EN).

4.12 Memory Dump Function (Linux)

In RHEL and SLES, kdump function which is a standard function of the operating system is prepared as
memory dump function. In RHEL, sadump function is also supported in addition to kdump function.

FIGURE 4.7 Sadump conceptual diagram

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