Compaq ProLiant 8000 Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 1

White Paper January 2000 11N8-0100A-WWEN Prepared by: Industry Standard Server Division Compaq Computer Corporation Contents What Is NMI Crash Dump 3 Compaq Automatic Server Recovery (ASR 4 Initiating a NMI Crash Dump Under NetWare 6 Initiating a NMI Crash Dump Under SCO OpenServer 5 and SCO UnixWare 7 6 How to Set Up NMI Crash Dump Under Windows NT 4.0.... 7 Microsoft Software 7 Compaq Software 8 How to Set Up NMI Crash Dump Under Windows 2000 ...... 8 Microsoft Software (subject to change 8 Compaq Software (subject to change 9 Where Is the Crash Dump Button located 10 ProLiant 8000 10 ProLiant 8500 11 Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature Abstract: This document provides a description of the Compaq ProLiant Class Computer Systems implementation of NMI-based Crash Dump facilities. This facility can be beneficial to system administrators in their root cause failure analysis. NMI Crash Dump allows customers to obtain critical diagnostic information in the event of system lock-ups and other failures. Both user-initiated and automatic crash dump support is presented.