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Table 3-1, Diagnostic Tools

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3-2 Compaq ProLiant 6400R Maintenance and Service Guide Tool Compaq Diagnostics Program Compaq Inspect Utility Compaq Insight Manager Compaq Survey Utility Table 3-1 Diagnostic Tools What it is Utility to assist testing and verification of operation of Compaq hardware. If problems are found, Compaq Diagnostics isolates failure down to replaceable part, whenever possible. The Inspect utility provides a report detailing system information. A client/server application used to manage Compaq hardware remotely in a network environment. Reports hardware fault conditions (both failure and prefailure) and collects data for reports and graphs. An online information-gathering agent that runs on servers, gathering critical hardware and software information from various sources. A utility for servers running Windows NT or NetWare. If a significant change occurs between data gathering intervals, previous information is marked, and the survey text file is overwritten to reflect the latest configuration and changes since the last configuration. This allows a historical record of change events for server hardware and software. How to run it Diagnostics and Utilities are located on the system partition on the hard drive and must be accessed when a system configuration error is detected during Power-On Self-Test (POST). Compaq Diagnostics software is also available on the Compaq SmartStart and Support Software CD. A Diagnostics diskette can be created from SmartStart and Support Software CD, and Diagnostics can be run from diskette. The Inspect utility can be run from either the main menu of the System Configuration Utility or the Compaq Diagnostics program. For more information, refer to the Compaq Management CD and the Compaq Insight Manager User Guide. More information on viewing and printing the event list can be found in the Compaq Insight Manager section of this chapter. Install Survey from SmartStart, Compaq Integration Maintenance Utility, or Compaq Management CD. continued

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Compaq ProLiant 6400R Maintenance and Service Guide
Table 3-1
Diagnostic Tools
Tool
What it is
How to run it
Compaq Diagnostics
Program
Utility to assist testing and verification of
operation of Compaq hardware. If
problems are found, Compaq
Diagnostics isolates failure down to
replaceable part, whenever possible.
Diagnostics and Utilities are located on
the system partition on the hard drive
and must be accessed when a system
configuration error is detected during
Power-On Self-Test (POST). Compaq
Diagnostics software is also available on
the Compaq SmartStart and Support
Software CD. A Diagnostics diskette can
be created from SmartStart and Support
Software CD, and Diagnostics can be
run from diskette.
Compaq Inspect
Utility
The Inspect utility provides a report
detailing system information.
The Inspect utility can be run from either
the main menu of the System
Configuration Utility or the Compaq
Diagnostics program.
Compaq Insight
Manager
A client/server application used to
manage Compaq hardware remotely in a
network environment. Reports hardware
fault conditions (both failure and
prefailure) and collects data for reports
and graphs.
For more information, refer to the
Compaq Management CD and the
Compaq Insight Manager User Guide
.
More information on viewing and
printing the event list can be found in
the Compaq Insight Manager section of
this chapter.
Compaq Survey
Utility
An online information-gathering agent
that runs on servers, gathering critical
hardware and software information from
various sources. A utility for servers
running Windows NT or NetWare.
If a significant change occurs between
data gathering intervals, previous
information is marked, and the
survey
text file
is overwritten to reflect the
latest configuration and changes since
the last configuration. This allows a
historical record of change events for
server hardware and software.
Install Survey from SmartStart, Compaq
Integration Maintenance Utility, or
Compaq Management CD.
continued