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  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 1
    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 failures. Both user-initiated and automatic crash dump support is presented.
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 2
    and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2000 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature White Paper prepared by Industry Standard Server Division First Edition (January 2000) Document Number 11N8-0100A
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 3
    Compaq ProLiant Server essential part of diagnosing reliability problems such as hangs in operating systems, device drivers, support an analysis of the problem, it is desirable for the system to be able to perform a memory dump before a hard reset is performed. A dump switch and the associated support
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 4
    Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature 4 Compaq Automatic Server Recovery (ASR) ASR provides a means to recover from a lockup caused by either the software or the hardware. The feature consists of a hardware countdown timer and a software driver, which periodically refreshes the countdown
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    crash dump file generation. Push button switch is added to A push button switch is connected to Compaq Servers to create a NMI. a Compaq hardware device that Available on the Compaq ProLiant 8000 and 8500. causes a NMI (PCI SERR) and initiates the crash dump file creation as described above
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 6
    Compaq ProLiant Server drive to store the entire core dump file, which can be as large as the memory by operating system specific features. The or the system management (cpqw) driver is configured to generate a crash dump problem. Additionally, if the swap area is smaller than the physical memory
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 7
    Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature 7 3. To enable the automatic generation of a core dump if an ASR event occurs, the Compaq Health (System Management) driver, cpqw, needs to be configured as follows: • The Health (System Management) driver from the Compaq Extended Feature Set (EFS)
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 8
    Service Pack 4.0 or higher. 2. User installs Compaq NT SSD 2.13A or higher. Note: Nearly all Compaq servers support ASR NMI with the exception of the ProLiant 400 and the ProSignia 720. The ProLiant 8500 is supported by Compaq NT SSD 2.13A available with SmartStart 4.30 or higher. The ProLiant 8000
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 9
    Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature 9 Compaq Software (subject to change) 1. User installs Compaq NT SSD 5.x (all versions have full support). 2. User sets the Windows NT registry. Enabling ASR NMI Crash Dump: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\cpqasm\Parameters\Featur
  • HP ProLiant 8500 | Compaq ProLiant NMI Crash Dump Feature - Page 10
    Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature 10 Where Is the Crash Dump Button located? Note: The NMI Crash Dump button hardware will generate a PCI SERR under all Operating Systems. Initiating core memory dumps may be attainable under each individual OS. ProLiant 8000 NMI Crash Dump Button
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    Compaq ProLiant Server NMI Crash Dump Feature 11 ProLiant 8500 NMI Crash Dump Button Figure 4: NMI Crash Dump Button Access from the Rear of the ProLiant 8500 Chassis 11N8-0100A-WWEN
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White Paper
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January 2000
11N8-0100A-WWEN
Prepared by:
Industry Standard Server Division
Compaq Computer Corporation
Contents
What Is NMI Crash Dump
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Compaq Automatic Server
Recovery (ASR)
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4
Initiating a NMI Crash Dump
Under NetWare
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6
Initiating a NMI Crash Dump
Under SCO OpenServer 5
and SCO UnixWare 7
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6
How to Set Up NMI Crash
Dump Under Windows NT 4.0
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7
Microsoft Software
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7
Compaq Software
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8
How to Set Up NMI Crash
Dump Under Windows 2000
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Microsoft Software (subject
to change)
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Compaq Software (subject to
change)
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Where Is the Crash Dump
Button located?
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ProLiant 8000
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ProLiant 8500
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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.