IBM RS6000 Service Guide - Page 301
Automatically Restart/Reboot After a System
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Reboot/Restart Policy Setup Menu Reboot describes bringing the system hardware back up from scratch, for example, from a system reset or power on. The boot process ends when control passes to the operating system process. Restart describes activating the operating system after the system hardware reinitialized. Restart must follow a successful reboot. Reboot/Restart Policy Setup Menu 1. Number of reboot attempts: Currently 3 2. Use OS-Defined restart policy? Currently Yes 3. Enable supplemental restart policy? Currently No 4. Call-Out before restart: Currently Disabled 98. Return to Previous Menu Number of reboot attempts if the server fails to successfully complete the boot process, it attempts to reboot the number of times specified. Entry values equal to or greater than 0 are valid. Only successive failed reboots attempts count, not reboots that occur after a restart attempt. At restart, the counter is set to 0. Use OS-Defined restart policy lets the Service Processor react or not react the same as the operating system to major system faults, by reading the setting of the operating system parameter Automatically Restart/Reboot After a System Crash. This parameter may, or may not be defined depending on the operating system or its version/level. If the operating system automatic restart setting is defined, then it may be set to respond to a major fault by restarting or by not restarting. See your operating system documentation for details on setting up operating systems automatic restarts. The default value is YES. Enable supplemental restart policy - The default setting is NO. If set to YES, the Service Processor restarts the system when the system loses control as detected by the Service Processor surveillance, and either: 1. The Use OS-Defined restart policy is set to NO OR Appendix B. Service Processor Menus B-23