Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide - SCN Research

Use the following web site to interpret faults and obtain information on a fault:
http://www.sun.com/msg/
This web site directs you to provide the message ID that your system displayed. The
web site then provides knowledge articles about the fault and corrective action to
resolve the fault. The fault information and documentation at this web site is
updated regularly.
You can find more detailed descriptions of Solaris 10 Predictive Self-Healing at the
following web site:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/selfheal.html
Predictive Self-Healing Tools
In summary, the Solaris Fault Manager daemon (fmd) performs the following
functions:
■ Receives telemetry information about problems detected by the system software.
■ Diagnoses the problems and provides system generated messages.
■ Initiates pro-active self-healing activities such as disabling faulty components.
TABLE 8-9 shows a typical message generated when a fault occurs on your system.
The message appears on your console and is recorded in the /var/adm/messages
file.
Note – The messages in TABLE 8-9 indicate that the fault has already been diagnosed.
Any corrective action that the system can perform has already taken place. If your
server is still running, it continues to run.
TABLE 8-9
System Generated Predictive Self-Healing Message
Output Displayed
Jul 1 14:30:20 sunrise EVENT-TIME: Tue Nov 1 16:30:20
PST 2005
Jul 1 14:30:20 sunrise PLATFORM: SUNW,A70, CSN: -,
HOSTNAME: sunrise
Jul 1 14:30:20 sunrise SOURCE: eft, REV: 1.13
Description
EVENT-TIME: the time stamp of
the diagnosis.
PLATFORM: A description of the
system encountering the problem
SOURCE: Information on the
Diagnosis Engine used to
determine the fault
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