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3-2 Compaq ProLiant ML370 Maintenance and Service Guide

Diagnostic Tools Utility Overview

These utilities were developed to assist in diagnosing problems, testing the hardware, and
monitoring and managing Compaq server hardware.

Table 3-1

Diagnostic Tools

Tool

What it is

How to run it

Compaq Diagnostics
Program

A utility to assist testing and/or verifying
operation of Compaq hardware. If
problems are found, Compaq
Diagnostics isolates failure(s) down to
replaceable part, whenever possible.

Diagnostics and Utilities are located on
Compaq system partition (if installed) or
your 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 Compaq SmartStart and
Support Software CD. A Diagnostics
diskette can be created from SmartStart
and Support Software CD, and
Diagnostics 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
remotely manage Compaq hardware in
a network environment. Reports
hardware fault conditions (both failure
and prefailure) and collects data for
reporting and graphing.

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
last configuration. This allows a
historical record of change events for
server hardware and software.

Install Survey from SmartStart, Compaq
Integration Maintenance Utility, or from
Compaq Management CD.

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