Chapter 5. Diagnostics
Use this information to review the diagnostic tools that are available to help you solve problems that might
occur in the blade server.
Review the diagnostic tools that are available to help you solve problems that might occur in the blade
server.
Note:
The blade server uses shared resources that are installed in the BladeCenter unit. Problems with these
shared resources might appear to be in the blade server (see “Solving shared BladeCenter resource
problems” on page 258 for information about isolating problems with these resources).
If you cannot locate and correct a problem by using the information in this chapter, see Appendix A “Getting
help and technical assistance” on page 265 for more information.
Service bulletins
IBM updates the support website with tips and techniques that you can use to solve any problems that you
might be having with the BladeCenter HS23 blade server.
To find any service bulletins that are available for the BladeCenter HS23blade server, go to the BladeCenter
support website at http://www.ibm.com/supportportal/. In the
Search
field, enter the following terms:
7875
and
retain tip
.
Checkout procedure
Use this information to perform the checkout procedure for the blade server.
The checkout procedure is the sequence of tasks that you should follow to diagnose a problem in the blade
server.
About the checkout procedure
Use this information to run diagnostics, locate error codes, and identify device errors for the blade server.
Before you perform the checkout procedure for diagnosing hardware problems, review the following
information:
• Read “Safety” on page iii and “Installation guidelines” on page 37.
• The diagnostic programs provide the primary methods of testing the major components of the blade
server. If you are not sure whether a problem is caused by the hardware or by the software, you can use
the diagnostic programs to confirm that the hardware is working correctly.
• When you run the diagnostic programs, a single problem might cause more than one error message.
When this happens, correct the cause of the first error message. The other error messages usually will not
occur the next time you run the diagnostic programs.
• If the blade server is halted and a POST error code is displayed, see “POST/UEFI diagnostic codes” on
page 81. If the blade server is halted and no error message is displayed, see “Troubleshooting tables” on
page 188 and “Solving undetermined problems” on page 262.
• For intermittent problems, check the error log; see “Event logs” on page 79 and “IBM Dynamic System
Analysis Preboot diagnostic program” on page 209.
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