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.

Selected system

Displays the selected managed system, or controller location code in the case of Node Controller dumps, on which a dump can be performed.

Dump type

Displays the type of dump that will be performed:

• System dump - The entire managed system including active partitions.
• Service Processor dump - The service processor includes service and error logs.
• Power System dump - The BPC service processor information.