Manage Dumps, Initiate Dump

Use this window to initiate a system dump for the selected managed system or a service processor dump.

• When you initiate a system dump, all applications on active partitions of the managed system will end abnormally.
• Initiating a service processor dump or power subsystem dump should not cause any disruption to the managed system, unless an unexpected error occurs. In that case a temporary loss in communication to the managed system may occur.
• When initiating a service processor dump, choose from:
  • Initiate System Controller Dump - Allows you to initiate a dump of the service processor. The service processor allows the HMC to communicate to the managed system and to control the managed system.
  • Initiate Node Controller Dump - Similar to the Service Processor dump with the exception that the dump data is generated by the node controller hardware instead of the system controller.

Managed system target

Displays a list of all available managed systems on which a dump can be performed. The data that populates this list is derived from the output of the 'lssysconn -r all' command line program. Only service processors that are in the 'Connected' state are allowed to be candidates for initiating a dump.

In the case of node controller dumps, the selectable list of dump targets is created from the output of the 'lsfru' command. This list contains only node location codes that are in the 'Operational' state.